He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

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

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

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.

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

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.