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

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.

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.