Ballet Will Speak For Itself. About Itself.

Why Are You Stingy With Yourselves? Why Are You Holding Back? What Are You Saving For - For Another Time? There Are No Other Times. There Is Only Now. Right Now.

Music Must Be Seen, And Dance Must Be Heard

We Must First Realize That Dancing Is An Absolutely Independent Art, Not Merely A Secondary Accompanying One. I Believe That It Is One Of The Great Arts. . . . The Important Thing In Ballet Is The Movement Itself. A Ballet May Contain A Story, But The Visual Spectacle . . . Is The Essential Element. The Choreographer And The Dancer Must Remember That They Reach The Audience Through The Eye. It's The Illusion Created Which Convinces The Audience, Much As It Is With The Work Of A Magician.

Choreography Is Simpler Than You Think. Just Go And Do, And Don't Think So Much About It. Just Make Something Interesting.

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.