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 passion ballet-class
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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...
life dance education
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. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
dancer use way
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.
dance mediocrity sin
The only sin is mediocrity.
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.
positive uplifting dance
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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.
acceptance maturity years
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
dance dancer chosen
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
dance discovery dancing
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery
body trusted honored
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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.