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
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.
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!
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.
vanity height censorship
Censorship is the height of vanity.
inspirational dance heart
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
dance dancer chosen
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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 tree spine
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
dance holy-ground dancer
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
nouns verbs theater
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
people dancer chosen
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
dance discovery dancing
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery
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.
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.