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
knowing giving dancer
How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.
passion dancer technique
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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.
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.
dance dancer chosen
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
dance holy-ground dancer
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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.
american-dancer dance hidden language
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
mean dancer trying
I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
beautiful jobs interesting
It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.
dance memories essence
It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.
dance emotional discipline
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.
pity
Pity is a corroding thing.
dance fall dancing
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.