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
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The body is a sacred garment.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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.
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I am unbelievably relieved. He is one of the best kids in the world.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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the instrument by which the dance expresses itself is also the instrument by which life is lived: the human body.
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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