I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn’t feel.
It’s weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
I – you know, I’m not an actor.
People of art should never get married and have children, because it’s a selfish experience.
Acting is not my language at all.
I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful.
You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It’s great. If you start somebody’s career, it’s so exciting.
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
It’s what’s left in life, to work with interesting people.
A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they’re such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you’re smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.
I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.
I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.
What people will do to get away from boredom!
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!
Love is not like a potato – you can’t throw it out the window.