Gerald Jonas Quotes About Dancing

• The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

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  Dance, Attitude, People

• The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.

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  Dance, Angel, Circles

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

• Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dance, Writing, Men

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

• Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

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  Dance, Communication, Skills

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

• In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.

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  Dance, Couple, Dancing

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

• The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.

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  Dance, Couple, Moving

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

• By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dance, Dancing, Peers

• A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

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  Dance, Lying, Dancing

• The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.

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  Dancing, Kind, Liberation

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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