What are the challenges that you are facing?

Currently, the most challenging thing for me as a choreographer is to follow my truth and create something that matters to our society, generation, and truly represents our cultural differences. 

What gives you the most joy about choreographing a new piece?

When my vision comes to life, when the dancers and audience are being fulfilled spiritually through what I create. 

What is your current inspiration?

Continuing  to dance.  As a mother, it’s not always easy but I feel I have so much more to share with the ballet world and those who love art.

Are you working on something right now besides the Dance Basel Festival? If yes, what is it about?

I am currently performing with my company, ABT at the Metropolitan Opera House this spring and at the same time working on a piece called “No Time Like The Present”, a collaboration with a group of female artists and dancers. It’s a piece about expressing their inner realities as women; each of these narratives is distinct and posits that there is no time like the present to understand women as individuals, that before and after the “present” being performed here today, exists a past and a future, it’s an invitation to be part of this experience. It will premiere this August in Manchester UK.