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

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

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.