In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant’s trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

I have no literary approach – except to literature.

The woman’s function is to fascinate men.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there’s already a plot.

Ballet is important and significant – yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

I am a cloud – in trousers.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves.

It’s like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

I’ve got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.