The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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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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