21 Quotes by Curt Sachs

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

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.

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.