Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

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

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

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

I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

The unique must be fulfilled.