You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

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.

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

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.