Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMThere is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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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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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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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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