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It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really... →
There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.
The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit... →
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from... →
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that... →
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.
I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.