Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
MARTHA GRAHAMPeople have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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 landscape of man’s soul.
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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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