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Martha Graham Biography

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.

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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Chart, Dance, Heart, Inspirational

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

Beautifully, Challenge, Communication, Dance, Dancing, Inevitability

What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

Awareness, Done, Sunlight

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

Giving, Grim, Life, Sound, Wonder

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

Alive, Indifferent, Intensely, People, Want

It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.

Beautiful, Interesting, Job, Jobs, Look

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

Dancer, Passion, Technique

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

Art, Inner, Landscape, Men, Soul

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

Choose, Chosen, Dance, Dancer

I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house.

Beach, Home, Love, Room, Several, Sight

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

Act, Drama, Nouns, Used, Verb, Verbs

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

America, Dance, Mind, Modern, Women

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

Husband, Jocasta, Medea, Mother, Time, Wicked

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.

Awareness, Body, Burmese, Dance, Dancer

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Dance, Flower, Imitated, Phenomenon, Tree

The body is a sacred garment.

Body, Dance, Garment, Health, Inspirational, Sacred

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Art, Creature, Dance, Inspirational, Instrument

I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

Believe, Stop, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

Call, Imagination, Light, Lying, Outer, Space

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Back, Dance, Inspirational, Start, Wings

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