From Chapter 1:This book is about dancing all over the world, from Stone Age man to the ballet dancers Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. It is an important and a vast subject; there are no people who are without their dances, whether one thinks of boomerang-throwing natives in Australia or modern city dwellers with their jazz and pop dances. The way in which people dance and their reasons for dancing tell us a great deal about their way of living and thinking.
