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

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

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

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

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.

You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.