DANCE WAS NO. 1

Dance may not be today’s dominant art form, but, says an Israeli archaeologist, it was 9,000 to 5,000 years ago. He “thinks he has pieced together a significant body of evidence for dancing, if not at its beginning, at least at a decisive and poorly understood transitional stage of human culture.” The New York Times 02/27/01 (one-time registration required for access)