Curt Sachs Quotes

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.

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

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

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

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

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.

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.