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Dance Quotes by Ninette de Valois
- The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
- And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
- 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 -…
- All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
- Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.
- 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…
- You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
- You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
- Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
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- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov