Not the epic song, but the dance accompanied by a monotonous and often meaningless song, constitutes everywhere the most primitive, the most highly developed art. Whether as a ritual dance, or as a pure emotional expression of the joy in rhythmic bodily movement, it rules the life of primitive men to such a degree that all other forms of art are subordinate to it.
a savage does not preach his religion, he dances it. Havelock Ellis
