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
american-dancer dance hidden language
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
mean dancer trying
I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
knowing giving dancer
How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.
passion dancer technique
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
dancer use way
I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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.
dance dancer chosen
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
dance holy-ground dancer
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
people dancer chosen
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
above below blood dare explore extract fail feelings found heaven life seem unknown
Who has not found the Heaven below / Will fail of it above ... His eagerness, his voracity, a blood memory, in the sense that he can extract more from his life than what he has really lived. He must have a will to explore unknown feelings and dare to feel them. This may seem terrifying, but it has to be done because there is no other option.
best kids
I am unbelievably relieved. He is one of the best kids in the world.
body dance expresses human instrument itself life
the instrument by which the dance expresses itself is also the instrument by which life is lived: the human body.
strong memories past
I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory
people want alive
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.