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

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

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

Perfect practice makes perfect.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

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.