People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Excellence is the name of the game.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.