Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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