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

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.

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

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

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."