Freedom To A Dancer Means Discipline. That

Dancers Today Can Do Anything; The Technique Is Phenomenal. The Passion And The Meaning To Their Movement Can Be Another Thing.

When You Start With An Idea, Or Something Hits You, Then You Have To Follow That Through To The End, And It's The Following Through To The End That Makes The Pattern. That, For Me, Is Choreography.

I Use The Words Gods And Goddesses Principally, I Think, To Mean Beautiful Bodies - Bodies That Are Absolute Instruments. And I Believe In Discipline, I Believe In A Very Definite Technique.

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.

A Dancer Must Listen To His Body And Pay Homage To It. Behind The Movement Lies This Terrible, Driving Passion, This Necessity. I Won't Settle For Anything Less.