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 GrahamPractice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha GrahamEvery dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
Martha GrahamThe body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
Martha GrahamHow many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.
Martha Graham