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The Body Is Your Instrument In Dance, But Your Art Is Outside That Creature, The Body. I Don't Leap And Jump Anymore. I Look At Young Dancers, And I Am Envious, More Aware Of What Glories The Body Contains. But Sensitivity Is Not Made Dull By Age.

In 1980, A Well-meaning Fundraiser Came To See Me And Said, "miss Graham, The Most Powerful Thing You Have Going For You To Raise Money Is Your Respectability." I Wanted To Spit. Respectable! Show Me Any Artist Who Wants To Be Respectable.

Freedom To A Dancer Means Discipline. That Is What Technique Is For -- Liberation.

Dance Is Communication, And So The Great Challenge Is To Speak Clearly, Beautifully And With Inevitability.

The Body Says What Words Cannot.