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Dancing 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…
- 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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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- 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
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
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- An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be… — Seth Grahame-Smith
- I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the… — Cassandra Clare
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry