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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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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Costume Designer
Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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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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Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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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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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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There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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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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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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It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.
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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 don't think in art there is ever a precedent each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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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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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 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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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