Samantha

“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, Blood Memory

“Nothing is as important as dancing. . . . Better a fourth-rate dancer than a first-rate anything else.”
― Patricia Geary, Living in Ether

“People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life. ”
― Martha Graham, Blood Memory

“God creates, I do not create.
I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it –
from what I see, from what the dancers can do,
from what others do...”
― George Balanchine