There’s an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
The blank space can be humbling. But I’ve faced it my whole professional life. It’s my job. It’s also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
Perfect practice makes perfect.
You double your intensity with skill.
I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift.
I don’t believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they’re doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
I have to feel that each thing I’ve learned I can push to another point next time. I’m not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.
I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing.
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone’s exhausted. Get focused, do it!