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  • #1
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
    Rumi

  • #2
    Martha Graham
    “Dance is the hidden language of the soul”
    Martha Graham

  • #3
    Martha Graham
    “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
    Martha Graham

  • #4
    Martha Graham
    “Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”
    Martha Graham

  • #5
    Martha Graham
    “All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
    Martha Graham

  • #6
    “You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

    Merce Cunningham

  • #7
    Isadora Duncan
    “It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
    Isadora Duncan

  • #8
    “To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.”
    Pina Bausch

  • #9
    Martha Graham
    “People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life. ”
    Martha Graham, Blood Memory

  • #10
    “Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.”
    Louis Horst

  • #11
    Kamand Kojouri
    “We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.”
    Kamand Kojouri



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