Martha Graham Quotes About Just Dance
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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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.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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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.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
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Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.
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