I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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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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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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The body says what words cannot.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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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.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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