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Ninette de Valois

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

Ballet

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

Life

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

Dance

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Ninette de Valois
"God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?"

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Ninette de Valois
"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."

Children

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Ninette de Valois
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."

Dance

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Ninette de Valois
"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."

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Ninette de Valois
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."

Food

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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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"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

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