Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

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

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.

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

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

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.