The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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