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

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

Love and help others unconditionally without expectation you are creating in effect, this creation will multiply for you in a million ways. Ana Maria Frith, Limitless: Change Your Life

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

I’m not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.