Polynesia Quotes by Gerald Jonas

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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…
• 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"…
• The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their…
• The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a…
• 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…

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