"It's either not good enough and dies altogether,……" — Ninette de Valois

"It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops."

— Ninette de Valois

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27 Quotes by Ninette de Valois

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Classical ballet will never die.
No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to…
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them…
The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all…
Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know…
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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