Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

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

Discipline is liberation.

The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.

I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.