Thursday, March 24, 2011

Martha Graham-- quotes & part 1/4 from Appalachian Spring


-- First we have to believe, and then we believe.

-- It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

-- The body is a sacred garment.

-- There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time. This expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it.




-- You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

-- 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.


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