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 fall dancing
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
dance years dancing
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.
dance dancing movement
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
dance dancing looks
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
dancing secret
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
dance dancing messengers
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
art breathing dancing
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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 dancing movement
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
dance discovery dancing
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery
love dance dancing
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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.