My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

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

I read Russian literature a lot.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

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!

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.

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