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

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

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

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.

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

If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable when you dance, you're not pushing yourself hard enough. 100 % is not enough. You have to give 200%. One tendu takes years of hard work and will never be perfect. Everything in ballet is a challenge.

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