Quotes about dance
dance fun laughter
It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance. Martha Graham
dance communication challenges
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability. Martha Graham
dance dancing movement
Nothing is more revealing than movement. Martha Graham
dance dancing looks
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. Martha Graham
dancer body awareness
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
dance mean discipline
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation. Martha Graham
dance passion movement
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. Martha Graham
dance blessed artist
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. Martha Graham
dance believe firsts
First we have to believe, and then we believe. Martha Graham
dance dancing messengers
Dancers are the messengers of the gods. Martha Graham
dance mean practice
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Martha Graham
dance lying passion
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less. Martha Graham
dance dancer chosen
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen. Martha Graham
dance dancing movement
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. Martha Graham
dance tree spine
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it. Martha Graham
dance holy-ground dancer
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground. Martha Graham
dance discovery dancing
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery Martha Graham
dance lying law
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. Martha Graham
dance sleep frustration
Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths. Martha Graham
dance motivation believe
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... Martha Graham
dance passion ballet-class
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. Martha Graham
dance wings body
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow. Martha Graham
dance body choreographers
The body says what words cannot. Martha Graham
dance wisdom artist
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. Martha Graham
dance two wish
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance. Martha Graham
dance believe learning
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. 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. Martha Graham
dance lying weather
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. Martha Graham
dance block yoga
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. Martha Graham
dance wings arms
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings. Martha Graham
dancer frustrated bits
I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me. Naomi Watts
dancer actors born
Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained. Mithun Chakraborty
dance spiritual littles
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
dance light soul
Dance to the light that is your soul. Jendayi Frazer