The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

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

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

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

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.

In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.