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