The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.

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.

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.

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

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

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