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.

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?'

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

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

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

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