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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.
Martha Graham
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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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