Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

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

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

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 kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.