You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

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.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.