So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.