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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough necessity is everything.
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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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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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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