Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
From Mikhail Baryshnikov
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
Working is living to me.
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
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