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

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

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

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.