There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.