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.

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

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

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

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.