You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe body says what words cannot.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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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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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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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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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 is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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