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 More Quotes by Ninette de Valois More Quotes From Ninette de Valois Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing. Ninette de Valois dance character firsts It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. Ninette de Valois dance fundamentals europe It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. Ninette de Valois not-good-enough good-enough enough Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. Ninette de Valois anything shoes food war So it takes years to make a solid company. Ninette de Valois solid make company years 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 become will wonderful attention 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 lose new you losing Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. Ninette de Valois your you dance feet
