Martha Graham Quote

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, "Be fearful here," "Be angry here," because I think that is intrusion.


New York Times interview (1985)


I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done ...

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done ...

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done ...

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done ...