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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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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."

"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."

"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."

"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."

"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."

"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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