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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
Choreographer
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Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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 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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Martha Graham
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
Martha Graham
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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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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Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
Martha Graham
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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