You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of th…

Martha Graham
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You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being. ✨ Martha Graham (1991). Blood memory, Doubleday
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