"Classical ballet will never die."

Ballet, Will

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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 with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then."

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"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."

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"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."

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"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."

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"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."

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"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."

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