You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

Excellence is the name of the game.

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

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

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

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.