You 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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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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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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