What is the Great Dance in the Works of the Inklings?

My next observation was no less surprising: if C.S. Lewis put the Great Dance at the end of his stories, Tolkien put it at the beginning.

When I first read C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra years ago, I was a bit confused at the end. Especially, when I got to the part about the Great Dance, in which “there seems no centre because it is all centre.”

As Ransom was listening to the Eldils delivering long speeches about the nature of the Great Dance, I thought these speeches sounded more like doxologies…