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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

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
Dance
Belief
Firsts
First
Believe

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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 never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory
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You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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 body says what words cannot.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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 fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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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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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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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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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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