Dancing Is My Obsession. My Life.

I Have Some Russian Friends. But Probably Only 10 Percent. I Don't Hang Out Usually In The Big Russian Communities In Brooklyn And New Jersey.

I Found That Dance, Music, And Literature Is How I Made Sense Of The World... It Pushed Me To Think Of Things Bigger Than Lifes Daily Routines... To Think Beyond What Is Immediate Or Convenient.

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.

I Remember Vividly Seeing 'tarzan' And Fred Astaire, The Chaplin Films, Fred Astaire Musicals, Mgm, Because Of My Mother. She Was Just Interested In Everything And She Took Me To Opera And Ballet, And Then Ballet Got Me Hooked.

No Dancer Can Watch Fred Astaire And Not Know That We All Should Have Been In Another Business.