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.
From Ninette de Valois
It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
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.
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
Classical ballet will never die.
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.
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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