I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.