I have no literary approach - except to literature.

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

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

One is born to be a great dancer.

We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

They are poets of gesture.