The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

...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.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.