Curt Sachs Quotes

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

Curt Sachs

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• The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

  

  Curt Sachs
  • Information
  • History
  • Painting