People dance at any age.

I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

I read Russian literature a lot.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

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