You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
MARTHA GRAHAMStand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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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 secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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