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Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Martha Graham

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Age Dance Live Magic Performance Reason
Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Body Dance Hide Language
You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dance Inspirational Style Yourself
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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Bone Dance Day Hard People Start Work Yourself
I 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.
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Dance Evitable Fear Happiness Intense Life
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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Affirmation Aware Dance Function Live Mystery Wonderful
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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Believe Direction Motivational Open Willing Work Yourself
We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Creativity Lost Pattern Time Unique
The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Interest Name Oneself World
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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Alive Artist Divine Satisfaction Strange Time
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Body Celebration Dance Magic Miracle Small Yourself
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Art Breathe End One Liner
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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Dance End Ideas Myself Pattern Start
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Class Dance Learning Practice Yourself
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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Lying Movement Reading Soul State
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Desire Face Faith Invitation Obstacle Perfection Performance Practice Vision

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

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