I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.