Dancing is my obsession. My life.

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

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 out.

It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.