First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

They are poets of gesture.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.