New Basic Crew (NBC)

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult.

It never becomes easy--it becomes possible. The effort involved in making a dancer's body is so long and relentless, in many instances painful, the effort to maintain the technique so grueling that unless a certain satisfaction is derived from the disciplining and the punishing, the pace could not be maintained.