Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

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.

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.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

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