“ 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. ”
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“ Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. ”
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“ 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? ”
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“ Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress. ”
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“ It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. ”
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“ Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. ”
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“ As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ It's like the voice. We don't force a voice which we decide is lower than a lot of others, we teach it to sing in what we call their key, don't we? ”
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“ It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. ”
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“ Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. ”
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“ Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. ”
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