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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.