Top 11 Quotes by Gerald Jonas

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.

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 Jonas

Dance, Angel, Circles

Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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

Gerald Jonas

Dancing, Kind, Liberation

Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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

Gerald Jonas

Dance, Dancing, Peers

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.

Gerald Jonas

Profound, Tree, World

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

Gerald Jonas

Police, Promise, Bending

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.

Gerald Jonas

Dance, Lying, Dancing

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

Gerald Jonas

Dance, Couple, Moving

Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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 Jonas

Dance, Couple, Dancing

Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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 Jonas

Dance, Communication, Skills

Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books