We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
MARTHA GRAHAMThere is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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