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

People dance at any age.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

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