Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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