You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
MARTHA GRAHAMThink 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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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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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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