You don't pick dance. Dance picks you. Martha Graham More Quotes by Martha Graham More Quotes From Martha Graham No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body. Martha Graham ugly body animal 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. Martha Graham dance mirrors thinking In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. Martha Graham forgotten-things dance beautiful 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. Martha Graham time people past Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. Martha Graham dance song motivational America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage. Martha Graham land philosophy moving I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique. Martha Graham beautiful mean believe It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. Martha Graham vitality unrest expression At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it! Martha Graham paris ballet dancing 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. Martha Graham moments art thinking 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. Martha Graham dancer awareness body Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. Martha Graham mother memories father You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. Martha Graham dance motivational inspirational Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. Martha Graham nouns verbs theater 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. Martha Graham dance memories art Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie. Martha Graham dancing dance discovery The body is a sacred garment. Martha Graham health dance inspirational Nothing is more revealing than movement. Martha Graham movement dancing dance The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. Martha Graham dance inspirational art ...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. Martha Graham drawing teaching latin
