Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

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

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.