It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

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

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

The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician.

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