I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

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.

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

Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.

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.

Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.