Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.