Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
MARTHA GRAHAMStand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
MARTHA GRAHAMThink 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMPractice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
MARTHA GRAHAMIt’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
MARTHA GRAHAMI want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
MARTHA GRAHAMModern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
MARTHA GRAHAMMisery is a communicable disease.
MARTHA GRAHAMDiscipline is liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
MARTHA GRAHAMAll that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
MARTHA GRAHAMMovement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe unique must be fulfilled.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAM