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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.

Martha Graham

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 GRAHAM

Affirmation Aware Dance Function Live Mystery Wonderful
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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Dance Essence Expression Feeling Hope Human Myself Soul Wonderful
It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Beautiful Interest Job Myself
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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Believe Direction Motivational Open Willing Work Yourself
The unique must be fulfilled.
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Fulfillment One Liner Unique
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Body Dance Joy Pain Song
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance Heart Measurement
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Children Darkness Time
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Desire Face Faith Invitation Obstacle Perfection Performance Practice Vision
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Age Dance Live Magic Performance Reason
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Art Eternity Forever Man Soul
Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Acceptance Age Glory Maturity Time
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Act Expression Thinking True
Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Dance Hide Language
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Area Athlete Dance God Learning Live Oneself Practice
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance Exception Freedom Secret

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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