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

Dance is music made visible

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

I am a cloud - in trousers.

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

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