Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
Martha GrahamMovement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Martha GrahamModern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
Martha GrahamI believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.
Martha Graham