There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.

I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

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

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

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.