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

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.

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

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

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

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.

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.