"Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it."

"It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articlute rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by."

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

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."

"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."

"Nothing is more revealing than movement."

-Martha Graham

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You do an eclectic celebration of the dance! You do Fosse, Fosse, Fosse! You do Martha Graham, Martha Graham, Martha Graham! Or Twyla, Twyla, Twyla! Or Michael Kidde, Michael Kidde, Michael Kidde, Michael Kidde! Or Madonna, Madonna, Madonna!... but you keep it all inside.

-Robin Williams "The Birdcage"