I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

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

I explained it when I danced it.

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

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

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

Dancers are both athletes and artists.