I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

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

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.