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.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

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

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'