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

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

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.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence

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 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.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.