I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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.
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?
Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an athlete is and to challenge themselves in the same way, to the same physical degree.
