You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.