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.

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

Classical ballet will never die.

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

We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

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.