I cannot do anything with a dancer--and I include myself--if the mind is not as conditioned, as limber, as obedient as the body. The body reveals what the mind is doing, where it is going, what it loves. The world reveals to you what you most want, and the conditioned mind heads toward what it most needs. Think and respond intelligently. If you entertain the notion of limitation or failure, it will rest comfortably in your company, and it will become a familiar location. I am not talking about the failure of risk: I am talking about the failure of imagination; the failure of faith. No one is looking at you; no one cares what you are doing. Get over this vain sense of observation and devote yourself to life and to others and to your work. You have no audience yet, but you have your soul and your fate, hovering overhead to see how you're going to husband both." ~ Martha Graham/Interview with James Grissom/1990

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Isamu Noguchu & Martha Graham 'Cave of the Heart' (1946)

"Cave of the Heart/ Serpent Heart" by Martha Graham and Isamu Noguchi

1946

martha graham in spaces of the mind: isamu noguchi's dance designs - robert tracy (2001)

Liza Minelli at a dinner party with Martha Graham and Lorna Luft, 1980.

Photos by Andy Warhol

I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.

(Anna Pavlova)

two deaths of a dancer, martha graham/jojo rabbit (2019)/dan the dancer, mitski/v for vendetta (2005)/i will always think of you, bojack horseman/jojo rabbit (2019)

Martha Graham, Cave of the Heart, 1946

Martha Graham 2, Photo by Imogen Cunningham, 1931

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991), photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1948

Soichi Sunami (1885- 1971) ~ Martha Graham, 1932 | src Focus on Dance ~ Keith de Lellis Gallery

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Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

~Martha Graham

and with every step together / we just keep gettin’ better / so can i have this dance?

fearless, taylor swift // anne with an e (2017-2019) // pride and prejudice (2005) // hadestown original broadway soundtrack (2019) // bridgerton (2020-) // the king of attolia, megan whalen turner // martha graham // enola holmes 2 (2022) // cowboy like me, taylor swift // emma (2020) // anastasia original broadway soundtrack (2017)

spaces of the mind: isamu noguchi's dance designs - robert tracy (2001)

Martha Graham and Diana Vreeland photographed by Andy Warhol, 1980.

Martha Graham 2, 1937

Photo: Imogen Cunningham