I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
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 hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn’t feel.
When a body moves, it’s the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are.
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It’s like a signature, a fingerprint.
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
Divinity of art, it’s such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.
It doesn’t matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
There comes a moment in a young artist’s life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.