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

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

The body is a sacred garment.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.