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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.
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
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.
So it takes years to make a solid company.
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.
There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.
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.
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.
Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.
All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
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.
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
