"Classical ballet will never die." — Ninette de Valois
"Classical ballet will never die."
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Ninette de Valois
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27 Quotes by Ninette de Valois
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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…
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Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
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The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
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There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
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God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them…
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The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all…
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Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
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And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
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There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
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All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know…
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You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because…
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Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start…
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of…
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love…
— Jeff Bridges
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You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
— Deborah Bull
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Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV…
— Meg Cabot
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
— Thomas Carlyle
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