The result of research into the history of primitive civilizations seems to prove that dancing is the first art, as it is the earliest impulse that takes an outward embodiment. Just as the individual infant makes its feelings known by cries and gestures; so pre-historic man, striving to find an outlet for the various passions which move him, resorts also to these primitive modes of expression. Dancing, in its first analysis, consists, therefore, of bodily actions ...
