Just Sit And Open Your Eyes And

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.

Soviet Regime In A Way Deprived Me From My Childhood In My Homeland, Because My Father Was In Military, And After The Yalta Agreement He Was Sent To Teach In Military Academy In Riga, And I Was Born Then.

I Think Art Education, Especially In This Country, Which Government Pretty Much Ignores, Is So Important For Young People.

You Invest Into The Future, And That's How Young People Become Human In Best Sense Of It - Through The Great Experience Of Listening A Müller Symphony Or To See A Great Play By Tennessee Williams, Experience Something In A Ballet, In A Film.

When A Dancer Comes Onstage, He Is Not Just A Blank Slate That The Choreographer Has Written On. Behind Him He Has All The Decisions He Has Made In Life. Each Time, He Has Chosen, And In What He Is Onstage, You See The Result Of Those Choices. You Are Looking At The Person He Is, And The Person Who, At This Point, He Cannot Help But Be Exceptional Dancers, In My Experience, Are Also Exceptional People, People With An Attitude Toward Life, A Kind Of Quest, And An Internal Quality. They Know Who They Are, And They Show This To You, Willingly.