Try to remember to breathe. “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not yours to determine how good it is; nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is ever pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”Tumblr (3.0; @hellsyeahmarthagraham)http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll0mvbQyln1qbazexo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://remembertheladies.tumblr.com/post/5391625981">remembertheladies</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>“Martha Graham: Letter to the World”</strong><br/>Barbara Morgan<br/>1940</p> <p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/martha-graham/about-the-dancer/497/">profile of Martha Graham at PBS.org</a><br/><a href="http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/morgan_barbara.php">Barbara Morgan photography at the Museum of Contemporary Photography</a></p> </blockquote>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/5398461683http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/5398461683Wed, 11 May 2011 16:24:43 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll0yjdvWij1qf80avo1_400.gif"/><br/><br/>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/5397719125http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/5397719125Wed, 11 May 2011 15:57:10 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcxgn5tEIj1qazanuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://wehadfacesthen.tumblr.com/post/2100545170/martha-graham-in-white-and-company-performing">wehadfacesthen</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Martha Graham </strong>(in white) and Company performing <em>Primitive Mysteries</em>, 1930s, photo by <strong>Barbara Morgan</strong></p> </blockquote>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/2100619193http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/2100619193Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:52:25 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7wzac2kyF1qahuhjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://tartanspartan.tumblr.com/post/1044415823">tartanspartan</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/1033655290/lushlight-yama-bato-barbara-morgan">kvetchlandia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://lushlight.tumblr.com/post/1033042135/yama-bato-barbara-morgan-1900-1992-martha">lushlight</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://yama-bato.tumblr.com/post/1030797220/barbara-morgan-1900-1992-martha-graham">yama-bato</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Barbara Morgan (1900-1992)</strong><br/><br/>Martha Graham, “Ekstasis” (Torso), 1935</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1044525318http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1044525318Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:48:09 -0400“<p>That which cannot be spoken, </p> <p>can be sung, </p> <p>that which cannot be sung, </p> <p>can be danced. </p> <p>- French saying, quoted in Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life by Russell Freedman</p>”http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010891685http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010891685Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:20:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7qaxnN8pB1qdrptko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Image from a 2003 version of Night Journey, using the original costume designs by Graham.</p>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010849062http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010849062Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:10:35 -0400martha graham<iframe width="400" height="320" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fFNsKeMbW20?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>“Night Journey”</p> <p>1961 film of Graham’s famous re-working of the Oedipus myth, from the viewpoint of Jocasta. </p> <p>Graham was 67 when this was filmed. </p>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010838796http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010838796Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:08:19 -0400martha graham“<p>“Once, when we were rehearsing “Appalachian Spring,” I had a passage that Martha said had to do with fear, or maybe with ecstasy—she wasn’t sure which—and she said why didn’t I go and work on it and see what I came up with… It’s always seemed to me that…Martha herself has a basic respect for the ambiguity in all dance movement”</p> <p>- Merce Cunningham</p>”http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010815171http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010815171Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:03:09 -0400dance quotemartha grahammerce cunningham<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7qaii5QTi1qdrptko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010807571http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010807571Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:01:29 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7q9rkPPlm1qdrptko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Via <a href="http://s300.photobucket.com/home/aderubio/index"><a href="http://s300.photobucket.com/home/aderubio/index">http://s300.photobucket.com/home/aderubio/index</a></a></p> <p>& tip of the pointe shoe to E</p>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010734936http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/1010734936Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:45:20 -0400martha graham“Dance is communication, and the great desire is to speak clearly, and beautifully, and with inevitability.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>From ‘A Dancer’s World’ </p> <p><em>Merci </em>and a thousand<span> </span>tutus to E for the clip.</p></em>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/994245550http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/994245550Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:18:00 -0400martha grahamdance quotes<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_rsG4R7qI&feature=player_embedded">Martha Graham: Excerpt from 'A Dancer's World'</a>: <p>“And then, there comes a moment - when she looks at you in the mirror.</p> <p>And you realise that she’s looking at you, and recognising you, as herself.”</p>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/994208406http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/994208406Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:10:00 -0400martha grahamperformance quotes““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.” — Martha Graham”http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984391568http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984391568Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:44:34 -0400quotemartha grahamdance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7h33niUSH1qdrptko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984385815http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984385815Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:42:59 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/l56PDffu8ong4ndpwroNaPZ5o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/122749081/gjon-mili-martha-graham-performing-punch-and">kvetchlandia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Gjon Mili   Martha Graham performing Punch and Judy  1941</p> </blockquote>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984368243http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984368243Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:38:24 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7h2scGOnB1qdrptko1_400.gif"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Martha Graham” by Susan Clinard</span></p>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984359452http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984359452Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:36:11 -0400<iframe width="400" height="320" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5fDkArsFaQo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984309762http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984309762Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:23:00 -0400martha graham clip choreography<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7frqj97vp1qzyt4jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://tartanspartan.tumblr.com/post/981322936/martha-graham-35-imogen-cunningham-1931-i-did">tartanspartan</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Martha Graham 35 — Imogen Cunningham, 1931</p> <p>“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.” — Martha Graham</p> </blockquote>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984285338http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984285338Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:17:07 -0400martha graham<iframe width="400" height="320" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Lr8OqS7glxk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>“The core of the technique was the use of the back. The use of the back out of the breath, that’s what a contraction is. </p> <p>And the important thing was, the weight of the body against the floor was emphasized. </p> <p>You did not try to deny the weight of the body of gravity.”</p>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984283403http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984283403Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:16:00 -0400martha grahamclipchoreography<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7h1raX39Y1qdrptko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span><strong>Andy Warhol: </strong></span><span>Martha Graham, Letter To The World (The Kick),1986.</span></p>http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984273269http://hellsyeahmarthagraham.tumblr.com/post/984273269Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:13:58 -0400