In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
MARTHA GRAHAMOur arms start from the back because they were once wings.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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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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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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