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

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

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.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

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.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way