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.

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.

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

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

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'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.

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.