What people will do to get away from boredom!

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.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

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?'

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.