People Dance At Any Age.

You Invest Into The Future, And That's How Young People Become Human In Best Sense Of It - Through The Great Experience Of Listening A Müller Symphony Or To See A Great Play By Tennessee Williams, Experience Something In A Ballet, In A Film.

I Do Not Try To Dance Better Than Anyone Else. I Only Try To Dance Better Than Myself.

In '74 It Was Really A Very Gloomy Atmosphere, I Would Say, To Put It Mildly.

We Lived, Until I Was 12 Or So, In Communal Apartment With Five Different Families And The Same Kitchen, In Two Little - My Brother And Me And My Parents. It Was Hell, But It Was A Common Thing. My Father Was Not General Or Admiral, But He Was Colonel. He Was Teaching In Military Academy Military Topography.

I Fell In Love With New York. It Was Like Every Human Being, Like Any Relationship. When I Was A Young New Yorker, It Was One City. When I Was A Grown Man, It Was Another City. I Worked With Many Dance Organizations And Many Wonderful People. In The '90s, It Became Kind Of A Hard And Unwelcoming City In Many Ways. It Became Conservative, Like The Whole Country.