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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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