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

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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. "

" My philosophy on choreography is that the making of a ballet is a team effort, and we're in this together. It's not me hammering on them. It's more about how we can elevate this piece collectively to something great. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's very difficult to switch back and forth between running rehearsals and then stepping in to dance in rehearsals as a dancer. Just to switch hats in an instant can be a little bit jarring, mostly physically, on the body. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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 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. "

" Ballet dancers are among the greatest living athletes. "

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

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

" Chicago is amazing. "

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

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

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

" I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers. "

" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to. "

" I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for orchestrating and composing, and I think she would be really engaging to work with. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space. "

" I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something 'contemporary' or 'trendy,' because ballet doesn't progress on one track: it can branch out in many directions, and as Balanchine showed, there's always room for pure classicism and more subtle alterations of it. "