Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

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

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

I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.