Ninette de Valois Quotes

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

Good, Enough, Either

Classical ballet will never die.
Ninette de Valois

Die, Ballet, Classical

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

School, Children, Everything

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

Young, Dance, Start

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

Dance, Classical, Sopranos

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

Time, Special, Themselves

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

Same, Dance, Until

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

Good, Bad, Important

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

God, Different, Understand

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

Best, Whole, Last

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
Ninette de Valois

Life, Everything, Goes

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

War, Food, After

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

Lose, Losing, Attention

So it takes years to make a solid company.
Ninette de Valois

Company, Takes, Solid

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
Ninette de Valois

Life, Somebody, Dull

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

Best, Study, Put

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

Wonderful, Influence, Ballet

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

Good, Bad, Nothing

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

Mean, Give, Become

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

Together, Country, Others

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dancer

Born: June 6, 1898

Died: March 8, 2001

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