The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

I'm not expressing anything. I'm presenting people moving.

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.

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

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.