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.
Gerald JonasThe basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.
Gerald JonasThe new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.
Gerald Jonas