I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.