African american culture ° movement

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused

     ~   Martha Graham

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African american culture ° blood

dancing...
sometimes it's blood memory...
not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years

       ~   Martha Graham (Blood Memory)

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Afro américain culture ° colonne

Ta colonne est arbre de vie. Respecte-la.

       ~     Martha Graham (New York Times, april 1991)

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African american culture ° spine

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it

    ~  Martha Graham (New York Times, april 1991)

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African american culture ° discipline

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for... liberation

            ~   Martha Graham

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African american culture ° passion

Les grands danseurs ne sont pas grands à cause de leur technique, ils sont grands à cause de leur passion

      ~    Martha Graham, danseuse et chorégraphe 

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African american culture ° vitality

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

           ~ Martha Graham 

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African american culture ° perfection

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired

     ~   Martha Graham

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African american culture ° discovery

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery...

     ~  Martha Graham

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African american culture ° practice

To learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same

      ~  Martha Graham

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African american culture ° movement

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies.  

     ~  Martha Graham 

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African american culture ° gestures

The are always ancestral footsteps behind me, pushing me, when I am creating a new dance, and gestures are flowing through me

       ~    Martha Graham 

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African american culture ° movement

I wanted to begin not with characters or ideas, but with movements . . .
I wanted significant movement.
I did not want it to be beautiful or fluid.
I wanted it to be fraught with inner meaning, with excitement and surge. 

     ~  Martha Graham

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