The Mirror Is Not You. The Mirror

Ballet Dancing Is Arduous, Strenuous Activity. Students Are Engaged In Physical Training That Rivals The Training Olympic Athletes Undergo. At The Same Time, They Strive For Physical Perfection Not For The Prowess Alone But As A Way Of Achieving The Means Necessary To Express The Pure Nature Of Their Art.

In Ballet A Complicated Story Is Impossible To Tell. We Can't Dance Synonyms.

One Is Born To Be A Dancer. No Teacher Can Work Miracles, Nor Will Years Of Training Make A Good Dancer Of An Untalented Pupil. One May Be Able To Acquire A Certain Technical Facility, But No One Can Ever 'acquire An Exceptional Talent.' I Have Never Prided Myself On Having An Unusually Gifted Pupil. A Pavlova Is No One's Pupil But God's.

The Ballet Is A Purely Female Thing; It Is A Woman, A Garden Of Beautiful Flowers, And Man Is The Gardener.

I Can Always Invent Movement, And Sometimes It Can Be Fitted Into The Right Place, But That Is Not Choreography. It Is The Music That Dictates The Whole Shape Of The Work. I Do Not Believe In The Permanence Of Anything In Ballet Save The Purely Classical.