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

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

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

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

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

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.