I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.

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

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.

Art is an investigation.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.