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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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