In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.