 One, two, three, four. Open on two, two, three. Contract for release one. Can I hear you breathe? Beautiful. One. I thought that was gorgeous. The gram technique that I teach today when I do master classes, I would say is definitely an evolution of the gram technique since the beginning of Martha's days when she started her company. And we have had many teachers, many generations of teachers who have beautifully added on and contributed to the movements and technique through its 90 years now. This is coming straight down behind her and the contraction actually sits up and under here. There is not really a lot of freedom in the learning of dance. You are highly in a position of discipline and fighting for inches, which I would not call freedom, but I do believe in that process that you create for your own body, for your own psyche even, and your heart deep abiding freedom, which will come years later. But it should start now in your development as a dancer. One strikes two. It takes time because in general we tend to as dancers control. The first thing we do as dancers is control movement, but that is not the essence of movement. The definition of technique to me is learning to catch the throw. You throw it out there and you learn to control the catch, not control the throw. So for me, freedom is the expression of throwing it out and learning to wield it like a sword when you pull it back in. And is this, they just walked away? And a beautiful, beautiful. Give me the next two back and hold on. Let me show you a pleading. What's your name? Come here my beautiful girl. All right. Well, I'm Mother Mary. And you're Christ. Okay. All right. Let's recreate this situation. Okay. She comes to the floor. This is always kind of fun because you don't know what I'm going to do to you, which is horrible. All right. She breathes in, which is... Martha is really, really formal. She doesn't give anything up. Nothing. Nothing in muscle ever gives up. You take a big breath in and you drop. And you come to me, except you're dead. And you've died. You are now in the repose of give me your weight. Drop your head, Ellie. Good. And hand is something like... And curve, contraction. Yes. And drop the weight. Exhale and hang, hang. Close your eyes maybe just for effect. There we go. Okay. And you give me your weight. Oh, there she goes. She just gave me all her weight. This is the pleading. The reason why it's difficult is because it's weight dropping, not weight lifting. Can you lift your weight? It's not that. Go back down again. It's this heaviness of the body, of the contraction lifting her to come up, drop everything, drop everything, drop everything these together. And she goes back down again. It's the phoenix rising out of the ashes and returning back to the ashes. It's the eternal story of life and death. It's in the pleading and that's what it's about, right? So it's resurrection and return. I think the students got a greater understanding of how dance can go beyond movement and that it's connected to the greater world around us through nature. Like, there's dance everywhere. And I feel like Denise Fale really gave us a sense of that through her tellings of stories from Martha. They also got a sense of the greater drama that I feel like they're attracted to and that dance can satisfy that for them on a very kinesthetic level. Keep stepping out. Keep stepping out. Yes. So much good. Forward. How do I feel? Are you with me? Shit. It is an art form of the heart. It's an art form of power base, of focus and stage presence. And all I want to do is wrap this all into one feeling and hand it out through movements so that the dancers can walk out and say, oh, Graham is this, not this, not a little thing, but a big thing. There's something about this that you have here that is very poetic. I just want you to know I know it, okay? And I heard it in the breath. So don't forget to breathe in your work because it is the elixir of the muscle. And when you do it, you're gorgeous. I mean, that's all I can say. Martha would have been really, really pleased to have seen what you guys did today, okay? All right. Be gorgeous. Be beautiful. Shine, shine, shine. Okay. You're welcome. You're welcome. So thank you. You're adorable.