| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 25759 |
| QUOTATION: | We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Martha Graham (1894–1991), U.S. dancer, choreographer. “The American Dance,” Modern Dance, ed. Virginia Stewart (1935). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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