When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

Your fragility is also your strength.

I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.

I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.