My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Discipline is liberation.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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