Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.
I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.
My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.
I was always into cartoons and animation.
My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.
When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.
I was first introduced to dancing through the TV: I remember watching ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing when I was very little. But I felt no connection with it whatsoever: it was just like watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.