Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

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

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

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

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.

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.