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. Ninette de Valois Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. Ninette de Valois Read Quote
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. Ninette de Valois Read Quote
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. Ninette de Valois Read Quote
You can’t stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can’t stop it, you shouldn’t, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone. Ninette de Valois Read Quote
Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving – we had no proper food or anything – no proper shoes. Ninette de Valois Read Quote
