"I was lucky. God blessed me with a great opportunity to learn. I lived in a house filled with books, and so reading a…"

"my late father was ahead of his time in so many things…in his progressive thinking, in his belief in freedom and equa…"

"I treated my students the same way I was treated, and that is why I have a wonderful relationship with my students at…"

"the only way to become a better human being is to think critically. You must be able to respect yourself, and to thin…"

"Dance is poetry because its ultimate goal is to express feelings, even if through a rigid technique. Our task is to c…"

"There was once a word that I am proud of and that is part of my childhood: proletariat. Unfortunately, no one uses it…"

"I had extraordinary encounters, such as Visconti, gruff and very sweet. Like Herbert Ross, for whom I played Karsavin…"

"I danced in marquees, churches and squares. I was a pioneer of decentralisation. I didn't want my work to be elitist,…"

"When Alicia Markova came to dance at La Scala, she must have been 45 years old. The other girls called her the old la…"

"My husband is already suffering because of the fate that befell him. We are asking for no special treatment from the …"