Ninette de Valois Quotations

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

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

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

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

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

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

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.

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.