Martha Graham
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"Martha Graham" was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Pablo Picasso/Picasso had on the modern visual arts, Igor Stravinsky/Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.

She danced and choreographed for over seventy years. Graham was the first dancer ever to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a Ambassador#Non-diplomatic ambassadorships/cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Freedom of the City/Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, in the 1994 documentary The Dancer Revealed, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."

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The body is a sacred garment.

Practice 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.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

The center of the stage is where I am.

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Learn by practice.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The body says what words cannot.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

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.