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Choreographic rhythms have their model outside of the profane life of man; whether they reproduce the movements of the totemic or emblematic animal, or the motions of the stars; whether they themselves constitute rituals (labyrinthine steps, leaps, gestures performed with ceremonial instruments)–a dance always imitates an archetypal gesture or commemorates a mythical moment. — Mircea Eliade, Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return.
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