Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.

The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.