Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.
The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn't seen them.
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.
