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

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.

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

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

Classical ballet will never die.

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.

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.