I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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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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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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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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The body says what words cannot.
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