First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

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

They are poets of gesture.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.