What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

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

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.

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

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.