I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.

I think dancing is an emotional experience.

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

I do not like a haphazard connection between the dances and the music.

There is nothing more real and more important in life than the love that we give away and the love that we receive.

If I had many who oppose me, it means I have stood for something sacred that only my heart knows.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.

Measure your net worth not by how much you have, but by many people you impact.