The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
Martha GrahamI am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
Martha GrahamDancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.
Martha GrahamThe 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