I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I 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.
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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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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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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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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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