Mary Wigman Quotes

• If I could say with words what my dances express, I wouldn’t have a reason to dance.

  Mary Wigman

  Reason, If I Could, Ifs

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• In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out

  Mary Wigman

  Moving, Expression, Unhappiness

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• Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

  Mary Wigman

  Art, Communication, Men

  Mary Wigman, Virginia Stewart (1935). “Modern dance”

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• Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

  Mary Wigman

  Dance, Art, Strong

  Mary Wigman, Virginia Stewart (1935). “Modern dance”

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• The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

  Mary Wigman

  Dance, Summer, Stars

  Mary Wigman (1966). “The language of dance”

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• Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming

  Mary Wigman

  Character, Night, Ideas

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• I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition

  Mary Wigman

  Emotional, Self, Law

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