The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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