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

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.

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.

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

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

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.

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