Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The body says what words cannot.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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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 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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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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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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