Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

They are poets of gesture.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

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

I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.

My muse must come to me on union time.

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.