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.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.