I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Acting is not my language at all.

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.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.