Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of 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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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