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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.

Martha Graham

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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Creativity Lost Pattern Time Unique
It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Beautiful Interest Job Myself
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Art Breathe End One Liner
Discipline is liberation.
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Discipline Liberty One Liberty
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Body Celebration Dance Magic Miracle Small Yourself
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
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Connection Discover Earth Heaven Law Lying Movement
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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Business Compare Determination Direction Expression Value Yourself
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Art Body Creature Dance Instrument Yourself
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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Age Dance Live Magic Performance Reason
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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Dance Meaning Movement Passion Technique
The body says what words cannot.
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Body One Liner Word
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Growth Inspirational Remember Stand Wings
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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Lying Movement Reading Soul State
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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Call Imagination Magic Movement Myself Space
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Class Dance Learning Practice Yourself

You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.

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