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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

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I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

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I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

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I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

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It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: January 27th, 1948

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