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.

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

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

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

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.

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