Acting is not my language at all.

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.