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
kissing dislike-me apathetic
I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
done awareness sunlight
What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
thinking world laziness
I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.
dance care done
If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!
discipline liberation
Discipline is liberation.
storm speech technique
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.
depression giving disease
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.
dance heart fever
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
dance hard-work people
Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
dance sleep body
There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
latin teaching drawing
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.
inspirational dance health
The body is a sacred garment.
mother husband wicked
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.
repetition monotony ecstasy
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.