: Progress in ballet requires an openness to learning and regular, disciplined training sessions.
Many dancers describe their craft as a mask. In a production like La Bayadère , the conflict is between the "strictness of ancient rituals and the chaos of human passions".
The phrase "the ballerina better" is frequently used by the Mikhailovsky Theatre
used the phrase to help audiences "get to know the ballerina better... full of comfort" during a summer ballet series. For Angelina Vorontsova