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The true, the unique, the eternal subject of a ballet is dancing.
Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)
French dramatist
For the ballet to be in the least credible, it is essential to be entirely incredible.
Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)
French dramatist
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
German writer
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
USA anarchist
Samuel Goldwyn: What kind of dancing does Martha Graham do?
Associate: Modern dancing.
Goldwyn: I don't want her then, modern dancing is so old fashioned.
Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974)
USA film producer
Do not move to the music... let the music move you!
Mario Justo Gonzalez (1976-)
USA choreographer
Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for: liberation.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life.
Martha Graham (1894-1991)
USA choreographer
Martha Graham
George Aarons
Sculpture, bronze,
rich mid brown patination,
35 cm height
1941, U.K., London, Sotheby's.
Martha Graham
May Néama,
Print, drawing
6.5 x 7 cm,
"Illustration for the book ""80 récits sur la danse" ,
1969, France modern ballet May Néama
The bridge from dance reality to realism is ritual.
Peter Greenaway (1942-)
Welsh film director
To dance is to live....to live is to dance.
Heidi Groskreutz (1981-)
USA dancer
A youth who is unskilled in the dance finds little favour with the women.
Lilly Grove (around 1895)
USA writer
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.
Sylvie Guillem (1965-)
French ballet dancer