Ninette de Valois

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#develops #dies #either #enough #good

Classical ballet will never die. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#classical #die #never #will

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

— Ninette de Valois

#classical #dance #like #sopranos #then

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

— Ninette de Valois

#found #get #goes #left #only

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

— Ninette de Valois

#dancing #exactly #feet #learnt #same

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. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#carefully #everything #first #first of all #good

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? ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#countries #different #different countries #differently #divided

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#best #bits #generation #hardly #just

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#fours #goes #life #nearly #threes

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

— Ninette de Valois

#anything #food #had #oh #proper