Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhen 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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