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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Martha Graham

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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Important Live Moments Notice Time Worth
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance God Message
It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Beautiful Interest Job Myself
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Boredom Happiness Repeat
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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Age Dance Live Magic Performance Reason
Misery is a communicable disease.
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Communication Misery Sick
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Class Dance Learning Practice Yourself
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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Affirmation Aware Dance Function Live Mystery Wonderful
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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Action Block Force Quick Translation World Yourself
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Celebration Dance Growth Hands Mirror Thinking Time Way Yourself
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Growth Inspirational Remember Stand Wings
I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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Believe Discipline God Principle Technique Thinking Word
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Area Athlete Dance God Learning Live Oneself Practice
The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Interest Name Oneself World
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Artist Himself Time
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance Meaning Movement Passion Technique

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

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