I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
People live a lot freer in their body and their voices and their moves than people act onscreen.
Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.
There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.
I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.
Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.
From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.
I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.
Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.
