It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
Ninette de ValoisAlso, 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.
Ninette de ValoisHardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
Ninette de Valois