What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

They are poets of gesture.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Dance is music made visible

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.