The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.