All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, bec….

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance..

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing..

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs..

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits..

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing..

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, w….

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe..

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it….

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops..

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general metho….

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success..

We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the u….

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it..

Classical ballet will never die..

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull..

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it ….

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do..

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when….

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves..