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… — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently… — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the… — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
