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.

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

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.

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.

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.