MARTHA GRAHAM

November  27,  2011

Quote for Today  November 27, 2011

"The great contemporary choreographer

Martha Graham was once asked

by a group of journalists, after a premiere, 

what the meaning was of a particular dance

she had performed.  She responded: 

'If I could have told you what it meant,

darlings,  I wouldn't have had to dance it.'"  

Opening sentence by John Baldovin, SJ, in the Intoduction of the book The Postures of the Assembly During the Eucharistic Prayer by John K. Leonard and Nathan D. Mitchell, Liturgy Training Publications, 1994, A Project by the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy.

Picture on top: Martha Graham [1894-1991] - by Yousuf Karsh (1948)