The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe unique must be fulfilled.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The body says what words cannot.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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