"Everyone just looks at him, feels the energy … no-one believes he's 83."
"I loved the whole theatrical scene of it: the lights going down, the curtain going up. It was thrilling for a young boy."
"I did Hollywood people when they came out to Australia,"Mr D'Aulnais said.
"If you have a flexible body, you live longer, you feel better, feel healthier and you can avoid lots of health problems by doing ballet,"she said.
"You walk in, it's a different world … a magic world. You touch the barre and you are at peace."
"It is all-encompassing, a bit like surfing in so far as you can't be anywhere but in the studio within yourself — it's very cleansing for the mind."
"He's very tenacious … he's even come to class with two broken ribs."
"I will dance till I drop."
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