It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

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

I read Russian literature a lot.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

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?'