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

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

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

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

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

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

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