Dance Is One Of The Most Revealing

I Was Very Restless. I Really Wanted To Be A Part Of A Kind Of A Progressive Society. I Was Fed Up With These Communist Doctrines And You Were Hassled All The Time With Members Of The Party Committee Who Were Kgb, What You Have To Do, Where In The West You Can Go Or Not To Go.

When A Dancer Comes Onstage, He Is Not Just A Blank Slate That The Choreographer Has Written On. Behind Him He Has All The Decisions He Has Made In Life. Each Time, He Has Chosen, And In What He Is Onstage, You See The Result Of Those Choices. You Are Looking At The Person He Is, And The Person Who, At This Point, He Cannot Help But Be Exceptional Dancers, In My Experience, Are Also Exceptional People, People With An Attitude Toward Life, A Kind Of Quest, And An Internal Quality. They Know Who They Are, And They Show This To You, Willingly.

What Brought Me To The Theater, No Matter You're A Jew Or A Russian Or Armenian Or Latvian, Are Suddenly Illuminated By Stage Light And One Beautiful Image Of Dance.

I Was Never Like, "collect, Collect," Like People Who Go To Auctions. I Never Spent A Serious Amount Of Time Because I Don't Have Any Time!

When A Body Moves, It's The Most Revealing Thing. Dance For Me A Minute, And I'll Tell You Who You Are.