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.
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
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…
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 …
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…
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 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.
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 mov… - Curt Sachs
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 mov…
Every dance is and gives ecstasy. - Curt Sachs
Every dance is and gives ecstasy.
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