What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable when you dance, you're not pushing yourself hard enough. 100 % is not enough. You have to give 200%. One tendu takes years of hard work and will never be perfect. Everything in ballet is a challenge.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.