Obviously, The Young Dancers Lack A Certain

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.

When A Dancer Comes Onstage, He Is Not Just A Blank Slate That The Choreographer Has Written On. Behind Him He Has All The Decisions He Has Made In Life. Each Time, He Has Chosen, And In What He Is Onstage, You See The Result Of Those Choices. You Are Looking At The Person He Is, And The Person Who, At This Point, He Cannot Help But Be Exceptional Dancers, In My Experience, Are Also Exceptional People, People With An Attitude Toward Life, A Kind Of Quest, And An Internal Quality. They Know Who They Are, And They Show This To You, Willingly.

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.

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 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.