I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

Anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it.

There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .

The only way to do it is to do it.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.