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"Classical ballet will never die."
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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
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"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
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"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."
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"Classical ballet will never die."
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"Classical ballet will never die."
Ballet
"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 - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then."
Dance
"Well, I mean, 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 developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."
Attention
"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
Ballet
"So it takes years to make a solid company."
Company
"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."
Life
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
Food
"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
Attention
"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 put that into the general method."
Study
"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, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps."
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