You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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 believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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 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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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