My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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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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