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 you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence - Ninette De Valois
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
- Ninette De Valois
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 … - Ninette De Valois
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 …
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. - Ninette De Valois
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. - Ninette De Valois
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. - Ninette De Valois
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. - Ninette De Valois
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.
Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success. - Ninette De Valois
Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.
You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. - Ninette De Valois
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. - Ninette De Valois
The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
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