We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

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.

Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking 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 want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

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.