My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.

People dance at any age.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something out.

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.