Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
MARTHA GRAHAMDiscipline is liberation.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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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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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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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