"I wasn't five years old yet and she drowned in the Vaal River at the age of eight, on the same day that King Edward V…"

"Those days the Strand was little more than a fishing village. Now I had to go to church and to Sunday school. It didn…"

"I was six then. Ouma recited them to the Coloured community that lived on the outskirts of the Strand, where she used…"

"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 …"

"The most important thing is to pursue whatever you want to do in life and don't give up."