The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

People dance at any age.

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.

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