When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.
What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.
I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
