Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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