Twyla Tharp

To be classically trained, absolutely.

You want to be a musician and not understand the circle of fifths?

harmonies of construction of all music no ballet is a format for the human body moving in space that has evolved over many centuries and has got a head start on us and if you want to learn about how you move you might as well try and jump a little further forward by studying ballet i don't care

Ultimately, if your arabesque, which is one leg behind, one leg under, right, if your arabesque is aligned in a perfectly classical manner, unless it's a perfectly classical ballet, but I do care you have that gear and you can reference it in terms of where's the leg going to move from and does it get to that point?

Can it stop right on its center or not?

That's what ballet can do.

You don't.

And the word is properly.

Properly.

What is proper?

I had the experience of working with the Kirov in St.

Petersburg.

And I went to their school and the children are lined up and they are exact replicas and they have a huge selection mechanism throughout the country for picking

those 10 or 12 kids that are going to be in there of whatever age.

And I saw one group of little boys, less than eight years old.

There were probably eight or nine of them in their little black shorts, their little white shirts.

And I just came in briefly and they were being, you know, as they do, it's a part of the tradition and it's wonderful, being very respectful.

And it was like, oh, come in and you will sit here and they will continue and then we're getting moved to the next class.

And one little boy came out and said, no, no, no, we want to do more.

So we went back.