Dancing is my obsession. My life.

What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

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