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Dance Quotes by Gerald Jonas
- 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,…
- The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.
- By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.
- 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.
- The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.
- 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…
- Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.
- 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…
More Dance Quotes
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- I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Gautama Buddha
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance… — Aaliyah