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

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

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.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.