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.

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 English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

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

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 dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.