Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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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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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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