I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

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

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.

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.

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