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.

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

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

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

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

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