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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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Cannot
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I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
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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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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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...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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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
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