"Dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of man? consciousness in action - dance presents a stylized version of man? body in action. "Stylized" means condensed to essential characteristics, which are chosen according to an artist? view of man.

"Music presents an abstraction of man? emotions in the context of his cognitive processes - dance presents an abstraction of man? emotions in the context of his physical movements. The task of dance is not the projection of single, momentary emotions, not a pantomime version of joy or sorrow or fear, etc., but a more profound issue: the projection of metaphysical value-judgments, the stylization of man? movements by the continuous power of a fundamental emotional state - and thus the use of man? body to express his sense of life.