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- 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.
- 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…
- 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 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,…
- 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…
- As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.
- You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
- All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
- First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad -…
- Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.
- 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…
- Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.
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