Theatre Reflections: March 2012

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Martha Graham, teaching a dance class, looked down at a dancer straining rather than strengthening his body and said,

"My child, my child, remember the divinity of your spine. It is your own tree of life. Everything branches out from it."

A business owner and entrepreneur outlines how his theatre degree in college has helped him in every facet of his career.

In the silence, my lonely eases

my beauty escapes, accidentally

the Mystery is baffling

smoke rises from the gentle whisper

in my soul.

Be still, small one,

the fire burns inside

but you must be patient,

bright and small.

I am a thief --

and I glory in it --

I steal from the present and from the glorious past -- and I stand in the

dark of the future as a glorying & joyous thief -- There are so many

wonderful things of the imagination to pilfer -- so I stand accused-

I am a thief -- but with this reservation -- I think I know the value of

that I steal & treasure it for all time -- not as a possession but as a

heritage & as legacy

- Martha Graham, The Notebooks of Martha Graham

The artist is a thief. Once admitted, one "may become one's 'calling,' one's 'destiny,' one's 'fame' -- one's 'immortality' --

The beginning, I'm finding, is delicious.