The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.
Gerald JonasThe one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.
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 JonasA physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.
Gerald Jonas