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Ninette de Valois

Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE (6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Anglo-Irish dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. She began life in Ireland as Edris Stannus. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing the Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and still one of the leading ballet companies in the world. She also established the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet School. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of ballet and as the "godmother" of English and Irish ballet.

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Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Bits, Generations, Lasts, Take, Want, Whole

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

Character, Dance, Firsts, Sort, Thing

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Ballet, Create, Creating, Education, Genius, Nurture

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

Sopranos, Ballerina, Classical, Like, Applied

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

Fours, Threes, Everything, Nearly, Life

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.

Bad, Dance, Good, Learning, Past, Times

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?

Countries, Country, Divided, Feet, Fingers, Gnarly

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

Dull, Life, Somebody, Something New

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.

Children, School, Step, Thing, Voice

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Dance, Feet, Learnt, Steps

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

Arise, Dance, Done, Easily, Firsts

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

Dance, Derived, Europe, Fundamental, Fundamentals, Western

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Alive, Art, Ballet, School, Schools, Time

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.

Cecchetti, Onto, Points, Study, Way, Years

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

Easy, Start, Way, Weak, Young

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Dance, Dancing, Face, Faces, Smile