Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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All 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.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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There 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.
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