You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

Everything I was being shown was ABT, so I grew up watching these videos of [Mikhail] Baryshnikov, Gelsey [Kirkland] and Paloma [Herrera]. Paloma and Angel [Corella] were the first people I ever saw dance live.

I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.