What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

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.

You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.

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.