I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.