Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

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.

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

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

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

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.