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.

My muse must come to me on union time.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

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.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.