While this dance takes place just before his execution, before he allowed himself to be taken by the soldiers in the Garden; he sings and dnaces with his dsciples recorded in this Gnostic Text:
Jesus utter paradoxical lines (I will be wounded and I will wound"
The disciples respond by singing Amen.
Thereafter Jesus explains the passion that is at hand, and he says
"Yours is the human passion I am to suffer"
and he goes on to explain that "The true meaning of suffering would be to understand suffering ; because to understand suffering is to be free of it"
he says, "IF you knew how to suffer, you would be able not to suffer,
Learn how to suffer, and you will be able not to suffer"
The last words of Jesus in the Round Dance of the Cross reveal how to be free from suffering. As Elaine Pages (the historian)notes, the wisdom of Jesus resembles the wisdom of the Buddha, and both Jesus and the Buddha teach that a true understanding of suffering leads to liberation from suffering."
Note: I was thinking that this probably means, that to truly suffer (whether through indignities, through ill health, through mental illnesses, emotions, through your children, your parents, whatever and whoever causes you to suffer...........whatever the cause is......
The end result is a "decimation" of one's own ego.
The ego will be torn asunder when we suffer.
In this way then, the song(his utterances), makes a lot of sense, in the same way that Buddha and Edgar Cayce both said, to "not feign suffering, but rather to embrace it"........as in the end, it's what will set you free.

(free from the very strong tethers of the ego)or the connection to "attachements" that a healthy ego loves to embrace and stay attached to.
Whether people, places or things, all are attachments.
When we "lose" we suffer, and when we suffer we then through suffering, give up our attachments for all time.

Thus, we eventually become "free"