The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

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

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.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

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.

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.