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?

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

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

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

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 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.

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.