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
dance dancing looks
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.
dancing secret
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
leadership being-strong work
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
beautiful dance forgotten-things
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
beautiful believe mean
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.
dancer body awareness
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.
acceptance maturity years
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
inspirational dance art
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
dance mean discipline
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
motivational dance song
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
dance passion movement
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
dance blessed artist
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
unique fulfilled
The unique must be fulfilled.
body trusted honored
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.