Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.