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
latin teaching drawing
...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.
inspirational dance health
The body is a sacred garment.
mother husband wicked
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.
repetition monotony ecstasy
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
thinking body gestures
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.
men soul landscape
Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
passion dancer technique
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
believe continuity-of-life wicked
I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
dance world
The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.
dance soul weaving
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
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 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.
women america mind
Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
art men soul
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.