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.

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

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

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

Nobody is born a dancer.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.