"The smile is the dance of the face……" — Ninette de Valois

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is… - Ninette de Valois

"The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs."

— Ninette de Valois

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27 Quotes by Ninette de Valois

Ninette de Valois has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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.
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…
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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More Dance Quotes

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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of… — Fred Astaire
Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how… — Margaret Atwood
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the… — George Balanchine
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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