I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

I am a cloud - in trousers.

The woman's function is to fascinate men.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves