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 am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

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

The unique must be fulfilled.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

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