The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancing 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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