The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

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.