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.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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