The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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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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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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 unique must be fulfilled.
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