See The Music, Hear The Dance.

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.

If You Don't Feel Challenged, It's Because You're Not Doing Enough. Ballet Should Never Feel Comfortable. Comfortable Is Lazy! If You're Comfortable When You Dance, You're Not Pushing Yourself Hard Enough. 100 % Is Not Enough. You Have To Give 200%. One Tendu Takes Years Of Hard Work And Will Never Be Perfect. Everything In Ballet Is A Challenge.

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.

I've Got More Energy Now Than When I Was Younger Because I Know Exactly What I Want To Do.

Put A Man And A Girl On Stage And There Is Already A Story; A Man And Two Girls, There's Already A Plot.