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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dancer

Born: June 6th, 1898

Died: March 8th, 2001

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