The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.

Dancers are both athletes and artists.