When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.