And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.