When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.
Jean-Georges NoverreThis art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
Jean-Georges NoverreThe defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement.
Jean-Georges NoverreA fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.
Jean-Georges Noverre