Dancing Is My Obsession. My Life.

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!

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.

I Never Liked Dance Photography; It's Very Flat, And Dance Photography In The Studio Looks Very Contrived.

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.

I Read Russian Literature A Lot.