The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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