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

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

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.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

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

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.