You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the 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 want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

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.

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.

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.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.