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The superhuman power which exh...

The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. 'In the dance even the weakest can do wonders.'

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The dance is the mother of the...

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.

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The dance is the mother of the...

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

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The dance lives in all mankind...

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

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The peoples influenced by the ...

The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

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Rhythmic motion has become the...

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

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In Europe we have the 'loss o...

In Europe we have the 'loss of self' motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.

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It removes the limitations of ...

It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.

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Every dance is and gives ecsta...

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

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The adult who puts his arm aro...

The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.

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In dance, even the weakest can...

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

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A person can be danced. In al...

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

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If you ask an Auin Bushman wha...

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.

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In the earliest cultures any t...

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.

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The oldest form of the Choral ...

The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

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Although the circle dance is k...

Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

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Wherever there are four walls,...

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

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The dance in which the men for...

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.

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The only information we have a...

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.

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