The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.

The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.

A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.