I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Discipline is liberation.
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We 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.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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