Quotes of Ninette De Valois - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Ninette De Valois

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

- 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? ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ 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

“ Classical ballet will never die. ”

- Ninette De Valois

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

- Ninette De Valois

“ 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

“ No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress. ”

- Ninette De Valois

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

- Ninette De Valois

“ 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

“ You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ 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

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

- Ninette De Valois

“ Classical ballet will never die. ”

- Ninette De Valois

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

- Ninette De Valois

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

- Ninette De Valois

“ Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ Classical ballet will never die. ”

- 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. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ So it takes years to make a solid company. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ It's like the voice. We don't force a voice which we decide is lower than a lot of others, we teach it to sing in what we call their key, don't we? ”

- Ninette De Valois

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

- Ninette De Valois

“ Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ Classical ballet will never die. ”

- Ninette De Valois
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