If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

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

How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

I believe that we learn by practice.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.