We have talked to our arts colleagues around the country, and they say no one has ever attempted anything like this with a major ballet company.

For all intents and purposes, supply and demand are balanced out.

We wanted to do something very different. Something we've never done before.

There's a huge volume of gas shale left in this country. These gas prices are going to stay around for some time.

There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was the country. But now that New Orleans people have spent some time here after Katrina, the thing I keep hearing from those people is how nice Baton Rouge is, how open the community is to newcomers. And I think that is why people are staying.

I will spend between two and three days in each country. The objective of our trips is always to improve relations with our customers, present novelties, keeping in mind, of course, an increase in our market share.