The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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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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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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