If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love the dancers in the Bolshoi, but all of my Moscow friends are outside the company. A friend introduced me to Vika Gazinskaya, a well-known Russian designer. I met her group. The rest is history.
The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
I think I'm the same dancer everywhere. But I've learned a lot with Bolshoi - the history of the theater, the technique of the theater, different nuances in my technique.
In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that's when I started to fall in love with dance.
At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.
I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
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