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  • George Balanchine is my role model because his work is so varied. You can see two ballets of his and not even realize that they are by the same choreographer.
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  • I never intended to dance in my own work, but we did what had to be done.
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  • I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for orchestrating and composing, and I think she would be really engaging to work with.
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  • There's something refreshing about going to work with a different group of dancers. There are different ways of moving, different ways in which the institution functions. There's a contrast from place to place, so the variety and the experience of working in a different place feeds me.
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  • There is something very cyclical about the way fashion designers work. They work and work and work, the collection is finally shown, and after those 15 minutes, they must start over from the beginning. This is not unlike the way I work creating new dances.
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  • My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.
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  • I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that.
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  • I've always felt that Balanchine is my ultimate teacher. I learn the most from observing his work and also dancing in it.
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  • Balanchine is the number one influence for me. His work was really musically driven. He and Jerome Robbins were the ones who really showed me that dance could be about the inner relation between movement and music. When I was a student first seeing their work, I was like, 'Oh, this is a thing?'
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