The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to…

- Natalia Makarova

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

- Natalia Makarova

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

- Natalia Makarova

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

- Natalia Makarova

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - …

- Natalia Makarova

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they…

- Natalia Makarova

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

- Natalia Makarova

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

- Natalia Makarova

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

- Natalia Makarova