Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...

I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.