The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.