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

In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.

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

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

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

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.