Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

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.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

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

To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.