Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

The body is a sacred garment.