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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.