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.
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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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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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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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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