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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
Martha Graham
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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
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Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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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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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough necessity is everything.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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