I read Russian literature a lot.

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

I read Russian literature a lot.

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

People dance at any age.

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

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.