No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

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.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

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

I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.