What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

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

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

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.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.