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

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

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.

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

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.

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

Classical ballet will never die.