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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

I'm pretty gutsy. Dancers don't think about things; they just do them.

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.