The 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.

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The 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.

Martha Graham

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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.

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.
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Discipline is liberation.

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Discipline is liberation.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The 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.

MARTHA GRAHAM

The 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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.

MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.

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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.

MARTHA GRAHAM

I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Believe Day Future Past Time
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

MARTHA GRAHAM

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.

MARTHA GRAHAM

You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

MARTHA GRAHAM

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

MARTHA GRAHAM

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

MARTHA GRAHAM

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.

MARTHA GRAHAM

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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Cultivate Feeling Right Storm Technique
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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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.

MARTHA GRAHAM

The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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