English Translation

Dear Silvia,

I am frankly moved by my visit to your Studio.  I know that you are a great professional.

When your students came to Spain they had an extraordinary "stamp".

But, many years have passed, and I was afraid that you might have fallen into the trap of

the "modernists" that is attacking us so dangerously.

There are dancers, I will not name any, that, because of their great personality, can renovate.

These dancers, the majority of whom know the dance to perfection, can allow themselves the

luxury of creating new forms.  But not so for us teachers.

The teachers must teach the roots, purity, the truth.  Only thus will there be good dancers who,

perhaps, tomorrow can invent.

Take Care!  the students are being deceived and they are being converted into "foreigners" of

the Spanish dance.

I was moved because your students have something that is very difficult to transmit:  the depth

of the Dance.  You had the technique and you keep it pure.

But this art that you have known how to transmit to your students is a "gift".  A gift which even

the passage of time has not been able to obscure.

Each one had something special, they were themselves, but, without you, they would not have

known themselves.

BRAVO!  I always wanted that my students should transmit my love of the Dance.  Not everyone

can do so.  Fortunately, I have students like you that are not able to ever be "corrupted."

Thank you Silvia!

Signed:  VICTORIA EUGENIA

             Spanish National Ballet

             Artistic Director

THANK YOU ALSO FOR NEVER FORGETTING YOUR TEACHERS.  THIS BRINGS YOU HONOUR