The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

In creative endeavors luck is a 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.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.