A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
MARTHA GRAHAMGreat dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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The body says what words cannot.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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