When we are out of step, or out of tune, we grow ill. People who know love are healthy and happy. If we would know love, then we must dance our joy together. Music and dance not only reflect joy and happiness, they also induce them. No matter how worried, depresed, or fearul we might be, dancing together fills us with the joy and happiness that is our birthright.
Dancing is magical in other ways.
This is evident in the Corn Dances, Rain Dances, and Kachina Dances of various Native American tribes, as well as the hula dances of the Polynesians. Anthropologists, recognizing that primitive dancing is usually in the nature of working magic, have labeled it with the term cycloterpsichorean . Such dances have persisted from the early hunting and fertility rites of primitive societies, to the more sophisticated styles of modern times. The relationship of singing and dancing to religious worship has been quite persistent throughout all of history, and with all true cultures. Only recently have people stopped singing and dancing before the altar of the Gods.