The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

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

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.