Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

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.

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.

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

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.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.