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
mean dancer trying
I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
mean gestures taste
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.
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.
dance mean discipline
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
dance mean practice
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
inspirational dance mean
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.
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.
american-dancer dance hidden language
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
beautiful jobs interesting
It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.
dance memories essence
It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.