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“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.”

Quote by Curt Sachs

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Curt Sachs was a prominent German musicologist, born on June 29, 1881, and died on February 5, 1959. He is known for his research in music history and music theory, particularly in the fields of musical aesthetics and philosophy. Sachs's works have had a profound impact on subsequent music scholars. more

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“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 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, consciousness of direction is far keener.”

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“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 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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“Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.”

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

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“A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.”

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“Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.”

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