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

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

- Gerald Jonas

The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

- 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.

- Gerald Jonas

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

- Gerald Jonas

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

- Gerald Jonas

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

- 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…

- Gerald Jonas

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 t…

- Gerald Jonas