In the dance world, it has to be in your genetic make-up - your body has to suit the training.
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.
We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.
I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.
Classical ballet will never die.
Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.
Pure dance form is not dying.
Ballet is one form which I really want Indians to practice it.
I'm basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what's known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.
Partner dancing is a cultured act.
There are many different styles of, and approaches to, tap. My own leans towards a more intellectual view: tap dancing not just for the sake of entertainment but to educate and spark emotion.
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.
I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.
I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
