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

If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

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

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

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.