Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe body says what words cannot.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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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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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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