Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.