- Dance - When we dance we become more than ourselves: in that, and in many other respects, dance is like sex at its very best. Academics have written a great deal about what is probably the oldest human art but Isadora Duncan explained it better: '... I feel the presence of a mighty power within me which listens to the music and then reaches out through my body ... sometimes it raged and shook me until my heart nearly burst from its passion!'
Her description is strikingly similar to the ecstatic state which is the object of the sexual practices in Tantra. And of course the great Hindu god Shiva, the male principal, is Lord of the Dance. He created the world out of his dancing and will one day destroy it in the same way. Dance has as many faces as sex, and many of them correspond. Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils, the ancient Greek Cordax, and good striptease, are all aphrodisiacs. Disco dancing is a more stylized form of sexual display. Much traditional ballroom dancing is gentle courtship, whereas the polka and the more energetic forms of modern dancing are closer to foreplay. And, like sex, dance at its best can be an expression of love. (See also: Music, Performing Arts)
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