Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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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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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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Discipline is liberation.
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