You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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