dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever ...

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

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 repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.