Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

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

I cannot stand authority.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

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