Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Martha GrahamModern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
Martha GrahamWhen you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
Martha GrahamIt is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.
Martha Graham