I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

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 problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

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