Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
MARTHA GRAHAMDiscipline is liberation.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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