Martha Graham
Martha Graham
Martha Grahamwas an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence of Picasso on modern visual arts, the influence of Stravinsky on music, and the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChoreographer
Date of Birth11 May 1894
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
beach home sight
I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house.
believe practice i-believe
I believe that we learn by practice.
ideas patterns ends
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.
beautiful dance men
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
dance believe practice
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.
artist doomed
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
dance healing ballet-class
Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
laughing comedian faces
One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.
picks
You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.
dark years light
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
drama nouns verbs
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.
dance flower tree
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
life giving sound
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
creativity unique patterns
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.