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Ninette de Valois
Ninette de Valois
Irish Dancer
Born: Jun 6, 1898
Died: Mar 8, 2001
Bad Dance Everything Get Good You
Related authors: JoJo Siwa Josephine Baker Katherine Dunham Martha Graham Merce Cunningham Mikhail Baryshnikov Misty Copeland Twyla Tharp
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 Shoes Starving Proper Had Were Yes Oh After Anything
Classical ballet will never die. Ninette de Valois
Will Classical Never Ballet Die
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. Ninette de Valois
Life Somebody Must Would Something Something New New Always Doing Dull Very Get
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
Wonderful Will Become Other Our Give Developed Part Developing Attention Soon Well Partners Parts Upper Quite Mean Lower
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
You Losing Lose Definitely Something Never Advance Advanced Attention New Because Without Yes New Thing Oh Much Much Attention Paying Technique Thing
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 First Important Carefully Other Everything Out Bad Throw Most First Of All Learn Times Survived The Most Important Watch
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. Ninette de Valois
You Dance Classical Like Sopranos Then Applied
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
Better School Before Everything Those Composed Voice Step Steps Know Most Learn Because Doing Been Children Which Then Certain Should Your Thing Things
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. Ninette de Valois
Time Alive Something Only Something Special Schools Left Get Goes Themselves Special Found
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. Ninette de Valois
Best Generation Bits Take Any Just Wants Whole Hardly Last
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 Year Way Draw Best Way About About A Year General Onto Points Highest Put Study Go Method Then
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
You Dance Accident Young Too Top Way Weak Easy Come Also Were Up Did Again Them Then Things Start

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