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.

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.

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.

I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.