Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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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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