What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMI have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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Discipline is liberation.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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