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.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

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.

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?

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence

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