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

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.

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.