Gerald Jonas Quotes

#1. The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

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#2. The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.

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#3. To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.

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#4. As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

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#5. The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.

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#6. Dance, 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

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#9. A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

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#10. The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.

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#11. By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

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