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.

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

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

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

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

Classical ballet will never die.

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