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Ninette de Valois quotes

Irish Dancer June 6, 1898 – March 8, 2001

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Ninette de Valois quote: "Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours."
Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. Ninette de Valois
Ninette de Valois quote: "Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get..."
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. Ninette de Valois
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
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
Ninette de Valois quote: "Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last..."
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. Ninette de Valois
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
Ninette de Valois quote: "It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops."
It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. Ninette de Valois
Ninette de Valois quote: "There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and..."
There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent. Ninette de Valois
Ninette de Valois quote: "As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have..."
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. Ninette de Valois
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
Ninette de Valois quote: "Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've..."
Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. Ninette de Valois
Ninette de Valois quote: "Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no..."
Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. Ninette de Valois
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
Ninette de Valois quote: "And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like..."
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. Ninette de Valois
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

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