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

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.