I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body.

Misbehave more beautifully; more often.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.

I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.