The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.