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

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.

I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory

The body is a sacred garment.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.