All Ninette de Valois Quotes
- Classical ballet will never die. Ballet
- 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. All
- Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. Any
- The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs. Dance
- There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence Ballet
- God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as… All
- 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… All
- Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. Fours
- And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. Applied
- There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent. Bad
- 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,… All
- You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others… All
- 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 -… Accident
- As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. Alive
- You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. All
- Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. Dull
- It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. Altogether
- All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. All
- Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing. Character
- First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad -… All
- Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success. All
- We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be… All
- You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. Dance
- You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. Advance
- Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. All