Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMWe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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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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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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