Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Feuillet: Taking Hands

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Elegant carriage of the body with graceful coordination, taking hands and releasing hands, might seem frivolus gestures, but with the emphasis in Quintilian on gestures such as eyes, head motions, neck positioning, facial expressions, and especially hand gestures, these gestures are hardly frivolous. Such gestures having been adopted among courtiers, dance gestures using the hands becomes an affair of state: state idiology. See Castiglione, Baldesar; "The Book of the Courtier"; Translated by Charles S. Singleton, Anchor Books, 1959

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