I 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 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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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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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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You 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.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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 secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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