I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

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

The center of the stage is where I am.