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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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
Spine
Dance
Tree
Respect
Life
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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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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Theater used to be a verb it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.
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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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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
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You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
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