I Am Not Trying To Do Material

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.

You Can Be Totally Involved, You Could Admire Just The Shape Of Or You Could Be Totally Emotionally Mushed Up Into The Dance.

You Invest Into The Future, And That's How Young People Become Human In Best Sense Of It - Through The Great Experience Of Listening A Müller Symphony Or To See A Great Play By Tennessee Williams, Experience Something In A Ballet, In A Film.

I Have Been Very Lucky To Work In So Many New Ballets, But That Is What A Dancer's Work Is.

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.