I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina..

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thou….

Treat each class as if it were your first..

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline ….

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate..

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 that. You le….

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It….

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player..

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you ap….

The arts are the hospitals for our souls..

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world..

Eating a healthy diet is not just about eating a few special foods. There's a bigger picture. You need to practice moderation, eat a variety of foods….

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life..

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance..

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed..

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child..

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there ….

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important th….

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls arou….

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 living,….

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music..