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I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing.

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

I use Spanish dancing as a way to exercise. I've done that for my whole life.

My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'

I grew up next to the ocean, on the coast, and would dance the salsa all day, so I just learned those rhythms and knew how to move my body when I was very little.

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.