I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.

I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.

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.

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.

I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.