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.

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

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

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

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.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.