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