Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Misery is a communicable disease.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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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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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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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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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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