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" Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism. "

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" In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them. "

" The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. "

" You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. "

" I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. "

" Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has. "

" I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. "

" Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive. "

" 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! "

" Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is. "

" Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me. "

" I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an athlete is and to challenge themselves in the same way, to the same physical degree. "

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

" I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. "

" When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.' "

" Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. "

" I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. "

" I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. "

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

" My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. "

" 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. "

" It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can. "

" I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women. "

" I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's. "

" The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece. "

" Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it. "

" I do not watch television, never have. "

" Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart. "

" I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand. "

" In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things. "

" I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place. "