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Ninette de Valois

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

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

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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
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"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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"Classical ballet will never die."
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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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"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."
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"So it takes years to make a solid company."
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"Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours."
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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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"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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