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.

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

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

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

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

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.