My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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