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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.

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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Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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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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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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I believe that we learn by practice.
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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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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head look at the way the hairline grows think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
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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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