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

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

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.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.