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

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

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.

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

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

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

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.