Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

I read Russian literature a lot.

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

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

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.