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 method.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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