Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

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

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?

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new 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.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

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