Dancing Is My Obsession. My Life.

I Feel Very Uneasy With A Lot Of Aspects Of The Russian Life And The Russian People.

I Fell In Love With New York. It Was Like Every Human Being, Like Any Relationship. When I Was A Young New Yorker, It Was One City. When I Was A Grown Man, It Was Another City. I Worked With Many Dance Organizations And Many Wonderful People. In The '90s, It Became Kind Of A Hard And Unwelcoming City In Many Ways. It Became Conservative, Like The Whole Country.

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.

In Opera Tradition, When Opera Die-hard Fans, There Is A Replacement Of Singer Or Singer Wasn't At His Or Hers Vocal Best, Doing Something, They Boo. Especially Now That They Pay Hundreds Of Dollars For The Ticket.

Just Sit And Open Your Eyes And Open Your Heart. It's Dance Theater.