I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

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.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.