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 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.

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.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.

American audiences are affected by what the English people think.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

Kentucky Fried Chicken.. KFC... Keep Fooling Customers.

In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.

My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.

In my case, I can sincerely say nothing is impossible.

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.