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.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.