Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe center of the stage is where I am.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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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.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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