There's so much baggage around dance. That's why it isn't very accessible to a lot of people. It's wonderful to go into the schools and introduce kids to dance for the first time. I want the whole world to understand that dance is a part of life, and when I dance I sense my livingness. I feel more alive, more total.
Dancing involves the aesthetic, social, intellectual, physical, and spiritual parts of being human.
You need all of those things if you're educating a person to be the best human being possible. This is what schools should be teaching, but instead schools typically teach the intellectual and the physical. They stop you from being social. Usually you try not to take ideas from dance but from a painting, music, or something that happened. A lot of my work is kind of ironic.