You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

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

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

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