The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness. - Curt Sachs
Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.
- Curt Sachs
Every dance is and gives ecstasy. - Curt Sachs
Every dance is and gives ecstasy.
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 … - Curt Sachs
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 …
Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted tra… - Curt Sachs
Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted tra…
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a st… - Curt Sachs
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a st…
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 y… - Curt Sachs
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 y…
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, the… - Curt Sachs
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, the…
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. - Curt Sachs
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
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 countr… - Curt Sachs
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 countr…
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