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.

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.

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.

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.

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