Nobody is born a dancer.

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

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

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.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

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