Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

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

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

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

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

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