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
american-dancer dance hidden language
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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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.
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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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.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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There is only one you in all time.
pity
Pity is a corroding thing.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.