Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

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

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

I believe that we learn by practice.