when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.

When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.