Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
MARTHA GRAHAMNobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMModern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
MARTHA GRAHAMDiscipline is liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMWherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMGreat dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhen 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThere is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe unique must be fulfilled.
MARTHA GRAHAM