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

- 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 …

- Curt Sachs

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

- 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

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

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Curt Sachs