Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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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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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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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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