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

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?

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

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.

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

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.