Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.

I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.

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

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.