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

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 of time, this expression is unique.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

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.

Pity is a corroding thing.