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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

Martha Graham

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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
Artist
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Costume Designer
Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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Theater
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Noun

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I don't think in art there is ever a precedent each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
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I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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The past is not dead it is not even past. People live on inner time the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
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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.
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