Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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