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

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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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“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 ecstasy.”

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“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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“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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“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 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 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 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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