the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

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.

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

There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is not important. What is essential is that they exist so that one knows when one is in opposition to them.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.