What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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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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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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 spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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