The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.
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I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
There's only a certain amount of space in every ballet company. You're basically on a team. You want to succeed as a group but all want to have the same roles.
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning.
City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.
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