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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.

Dancing doesn't have a language.

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.

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.