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Ninette de Valois

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


— Ninette de Valois


#develops #dies #either #enough #good

Classical ballet will never die.


— Ninette de Valois


#classical #die #never #will

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


— Ninette de Valois


#classical #dance #like #sopranos #then

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


— Ninette de Valois


#found #get #goes #left #only

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


— Ninette de Valois


#dancing #exactly #feet #learnt #same

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


#carefully #everything #first #first of all #good

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


#countries #different #different countries #differently #divided

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


— Ninette de Valois


#best #bits #generation #hardly #just

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.


— Ninette de Valois


#fours #goes #life #nearly #threes

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


— Ninette de Valois


#anything #food #had #oh #proper






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London: W. She also establiNinette de Valoisd the Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet School. Its first performance at Sadler's Wells was on 15 May 1931.

Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE FRAD FISTD (6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer teacher choreographer and director of classical ballet. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of ballet and as the 'godmother' of English ballet.

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