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

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

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

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

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.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance