Dancing is my obsession. My life.

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

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

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.

Acting is not my language at all.