Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.