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I believe that we learn by practice.

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
Practice
Learn
Believe

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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.
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There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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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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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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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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I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Discipline is liberation.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
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You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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