Ninette de Valois Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Classical ballet will never die.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Ballet Quotes #Classic Quotes
“It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Not Good Enough Quotes #Enough Quotes #Good Enough Quotes
“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

#Years Quotes #Way Quotes #Study Quotes
“Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Fours Quotes
“And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Sopranos Quotes #Ballerina Quotes
“There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#World Quotes #Indifferent Quotes
“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

#Children Quotes #School Quotes #Voice Quotes
“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

#Country Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Together Quotes
“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.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Way Quotes #Easy Quotes #Weak Quotes
“As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#School Quotes #Special Quotes #Goes On Quotes
“You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Genius Quotes #Nurture Quotes
“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

#Country Quotes #Gnarly Quotes #Feet Quotes
“There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Ballet Quotes #Influence Quotes #Wonderful Quotes
“The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Faces Quotes #Limbs Quotes
“All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Dance Quotes #Europe Quotes #Steps Quotes
“Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Dance Quotes #Character Quotes #Firsts Quotes
“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

#Dance Quotes #Important Quotes #Firsts Quotes
“Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Dance Quotes #Done Quotes #Firsts Quotes
“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

#Dance Quotes #Giving Quotes #Attention Quotes
“You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Dance Quotes #Feet Quotes #Steps Quotes
“You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Dance Quotes #Attention Quotes #Losing Quotes
“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

#Talking Quotes #Dancing Quotes #Singing Quotes
“Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Lasts Quotes #Generations Quotes #Want Quotes
“Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.”
-- Ninette de Valois

#Dull Quotes #Something New Quotes

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