My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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