Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the landscape of man’s soul.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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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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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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