I Don't Try To Tell The Dancers

I've Relaxed My Feelings About Other Companies Performing My Works. I Have Never In Principle Been Against My Ballets Being Danced By Other Companies. Rather, It Is That We Lack The Time, Space And Money To Insure That They Are Done Well. To Me, The Only Sin Is Mediocrity.

No Animal Ever Has An Ugly Body Until It Is Domesticated. It Is The Same With The Human Body.

I Am Certain That Movement Never Lies. There Is Only One Law Of Posture I Have Been Able To Discover - The Perpendicular Line Connecting Heaven And Earth.

How Many Leaps Did Nijinksy Take Before He Made The One That Startled The World? He Took Thousands And Thousands And It Is That Legend That Gives Us The Courage, The Energy, And Arrogance To Go Back Into The Studio Knowing That While There Is So Little Time To Be Born To The Instant, You Will Work Again Among The Many That You May Once More Be Born As One. That Is A Dancer's World.

The Center Of The Stage Is Where I Am.