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

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

The body is a sacred garment.

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

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.