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

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

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.

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

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.