You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

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.

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

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.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.