The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAMModern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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