I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

You don't measure life by receiving awards.

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.