The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

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

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

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

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.