Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

Martha Graham
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The body says what words cannot. ✨ Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance. archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. ✨ Martha Graham (1991). Blood memory, Doubleday

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