Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991)[1] was an American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.[2] (wikipedia)
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.
Censorship is the height of vanity.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery