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He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.
I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.
Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.
I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
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 think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.
I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
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!
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.
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 adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.
What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.
I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.
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.
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 matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.
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.
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.
The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.