In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

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

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?

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

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.