First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
Ninette de ValoisHardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
Ninette de ValoisThere would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
Ninette de Valois