Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

They are poets of gesture.

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

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.

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

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.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.