Dance Is Music Made Visible

Ballet Will Speak For Itself. About Itself.

It's Like The Time Capsule With Everything In It. Or Like The Seed That When You Plant It, Becomes The Enormous Tree With Leaves And Fruit. Everybody Was In That Little Seed, And So Everything Can Open. The Tree Of Dance Is Like That. It Just Takes A Long, Long Time To Blossom.

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

One Is Born To Be A Dancer. No Teacher Can Work Miracles, Nor Will Years Of Training Make A Good Dancer Of An Untalented Pupil. One May Be Able To Acquire A Certain Technical Facility, But No One Can Ever 'acquire An Exceptional Talent.' I Have Never Prided Myself On Having An Unusually Gifted Pupil. A Pavlova Is No One's Pupil But God's.

The Ballet Is A Purely Female Thing; It Is A Woman, A Garden Of Beautiful Flowers, And Man Is The Gardener.