The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.
Gerald JonasBy dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.
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