Martha Graham
Martha Graham
Martha Grahamwas an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence of Picasso on modern visual arts, the influence of Stravinsky on music, and the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChoreographer
Date of Birth11 May 1894
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
dance dancer chosen
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
dance discovery dancing
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery
nouns verbs theater
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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.
vanity height censorship
Censorship is the height of vanity.
dance dancing movement
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
dance holy-ground dancer
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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.
paris dancing ballet
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!
unique fulfilled
The unique must be fulfilled.
dance believe firsts
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
magic world reason
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
dance dancing movement
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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.