Gerald Jonas quotes
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“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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“The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.”
-- Gerald JonasSource : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
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“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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“By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.”
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“The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.”
-- Gerald JonasSource : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
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“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.”
-- Gerald JonasSource : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
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“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.”
-- Gerald JonasSource : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
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“Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.”
-- Gerald JonasSource : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
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“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.”
-- Gerald JonasSource : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
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“As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.”
-- Gerald Jonas
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