Dance Is Life Quotes - Page 2

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.

Martha Graham

Dance, Dancing, Looks

"The American Dance" (1935)

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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.

Martha Graham

Life, Dance, Education

Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

Jacques d'Amboise

Dance, Sadness, Expression

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Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Constanze Mozart

Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because 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. 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.

Martha Graham

Dance, Block, Yoga

"The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

Martha Graham

Dancer, Use, Way

"Martha Graham Google Doodle Celebrates the Dancer and Choreographer's 117th Birthday" by Laura Roberts, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 11, 2011.

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