Martha Graham Quotes

My overall opinion about this quote is determined on how I feel I’m connected with Martha Graham, because she was the one who conveyed feeling and thought into this quote. Martha Graham was a remarkable woman of her age who wanted to dance her heart out about the hardships that influenced life for everyone including herself. Her goal as a dance choreographer was to teach audiences a moral lesson about the influences of life in the most passionate way for them to understand a message and keep it in their minds forever. She always knew that preforming a message with dance would be more effective than explaining it with words because, “the essence of dance is the expression of man.” Revealing an expression through dance is no different then saying

During the Martha Graham unit, we got to choose which social issue we wanted to create a dance out of based on Martha Graham’s technique. My group chose bullying as our social issue and our dance went flawless, people in my group included Julia. C, Sophia, and Siham, in our dance we had represented bullying in 4 different stories. I personally think that was an amazing idea because, in the world there are not specific races or ages or colours or genders that determines if you are going to get bullied or not, and the fact is if Martha Graham saw our dance she would know that our dance was representing “the expression of man” in all over the world. I’m connected to Martha because I too express my feelings in the best way through dance to convey a

These words to me only remind me of one thing, people on the outside and their soul on the inside. People in the world have a two sides to them, when you look at a person you judge them instantly on what they look like in front of you which is the outside of them. You would think that you know everything about that person. But you are wrong; when Martha says, “the essence of dance is the expression of man --- the landscape of his soul” she is talking about who a person is on the inside on how they express themselves on the outside with the expression of dance or emotions. The expression that you use in front of people is not as revealing as in front of an audience on a stage, because when you dance your emotions are lead out to the sky, you can’t control them, you can’t hold a grip on them, you pretty much lose them to anybody there. That is what Martha is talking about; she is saying that on a stage when you preform your emotions is lead out without you even trying, which shows your true self fully. When you talk to someone and are not as nervous or excited you have a choice on what to do with your emotions, which confuses other people on how to describe you later on. That is why when you dance it is expressing your emotions uncontrollably, which is expressing your true self, which can be considered as the landscape of your