A chorus of singers at the festivals of Apollo usually danced around the altar, while several other persons were appointed to accompany the action of the song with an appropriate mimic performance.
And from midnight to midmorning on Sunday, uniformed choruses sing and dance - performing spirituals, pop songs, praises of trade-union leaders and political satires.
A Greek chorus danced as well as sang, though no one knows exactly what sorts of steps the chorus performed as it sang.
The theatre, always open-air, consisted in the first place of a circular dancing-floor (orchestra), where the chorus danced and sang, and the skene, behind the orchestra, was later added for the actors.
The hardworking choruses of musicals like "42nd Street" can dance until their shoes lose their tap, but they still won't generate the energy found in this gathering of angry young poets.
Mr. Westenburg's "Messiah" is light and fast; the lumbering and the tanklike are avoided, and indeed, choruses like "He Trusted in God" danced splendidly.
A chorus of hard-bitten, black-clad flapper types dance to the repeated phrase "I'm happy, you're happy."
On both days at 12:30 P.M., a chorus of 30 Colombian children will sing and dance.
Not many professional North American choruses could sway, clap and dance in place to such undulant South American rhythms with the naturalness of these dynamic choristers.
The performance space was a simple circular space, the orchestra, where the chorus danced and sang.