Put A Man And A Girl On

I Cannot Move, I Cannot Even Want To Move, Unless I Hear The Music First.

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.

One Is Born To Be A Great Dancer.

The Mirror Is Not You. The Mirror Is You Looking At Yourself.

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.