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Carla Fracci Quotes

1936–2021 Italy

Carolina "Carla" Fracci (1936 – 2021) was an Italian prima ballerina, actress and ballet director. Considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, she was a leading dancer of La Scala Theatre Ballet in Milan, then worked freelance with international companies including the Royal Ballet, London, Stuttgart Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.

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Dance is poetry because its ultimate goal is to express feelings, even if through a rigid technique. Our task is to convey words through movement.

When Alicia Markova came to dance at La Scala, she must have been 45 years old. The other girls called her the old lady. To me, she was fantastic. Such nobility, such enchanting little feet.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carla Fracci (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.