Martha Graham - Living Quotes

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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

To learn to dance by practicing dancing or to live by practicing living, the principles are the same.… One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God.

Martha Graham

I believe that 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. in each it is the performance of a dedicated set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes the shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some areas an athlete of God.

Martha Graham

I think the reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

Martha Graham