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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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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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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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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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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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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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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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Discipline is liberation.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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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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