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?

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

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

I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.

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

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'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.