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.

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

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

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

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.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.