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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

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
Choreography
Dancers
Messengers
Dancer
Gods
Dancing
Dance

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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
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It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.
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There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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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.
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