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" It's nice to have the support and infrastructure to do what I want creatively. That's kind of a rare thing to find. "

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" I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it. "

" When I'm in sneakers, it changes my body carriage. I feel more in my own skin. "

" There is something very cyclical about the way fashion designers work. They work and work and work, the collection is finally shown, and after those 15 minutes, they must start over from the beginning. This is not unlike the way I work creating new dances. "

" There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains. "

" There's an innate feeling when I choreograph in juxtaposition to how I feel as a dancer. When I choreograph, I never really look into the mirror. But as dancers, we always check ourselves in the mirror. I do feel that when I choreograph, I am making a dance on my own body. Much of it is my own response to the music. "

" There's something refreshing about going to work with a different group of dancers. There are different ways of moving, different ways in which the institution functions. There's a contrast from place to place, so the variety and the experience of working in a different place feeds me. "

" Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. "

" The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with gender roles, then I think it will change. But if that's not of interest to a dance-maker, if their interest is to sort of preserve the way things have been done for the past 200 years, then nothing is going to change. "

" I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing. "

" It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing. "

" The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing. "

" Ballet dancers are among the greatest living athletes. "

" My choreography is very classically based. "

" There is a clearing for new creative thought in choreography. I don't feel intimidated; there is a lot I can do that is new or innovative or different. "

" Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about how far you want to push from there. "

" I never intended to dance in my own work, but we did what had to be done. "

" My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist. "

" If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy. "

" I'm not a very good dancer. My feet don't point far enough; my extension is embarrassing. Dance, for me, has been hard because it's a strive for perfection. "

" Chicago is amazing. "

" I've always liked vintage posters of California beaches. "

" I think that story ballets, as great as they might sell, they're a really dated and awkward medium to tell stories through. I think there needs to be an updated or different approach to storytelling in dance. There needs to be less of a separation between the storytelling and the dancing. "

" My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant. "

" The reason I started dancing in the first place was my dad took me to see 'Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk' when I was 9. "

" It's amazing what a resource modern technology is now for making ballets, and I film my rehearsals almost every day. "

" I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that. "

" I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing. "

" The ballet world, it's a crazy world. "

" To me, dance and ballet are not so accessible. "

" Balanchine is the number one influence for me. His work was really musically driven. He and Jerome Robbins were the ones who really showed me that dance could be about the inner relation between movement and music. When I was a student first seeing their work, I was like, 'Oh, this is a thing?' "