I wasn't into tapping when it began dying down. Ever since I started, it's been alive for me. I just want to keep on dancing. I want to do it all.
I see myself helping the next generation of dancers who come along, helping them to keep the dance focused, so we don't get into a position where they're saying in 2050, or whatever, that around 2001 or 2002 or something the dance died.
I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite on PBS. I have no numbers to prove it, but I bet that kids who saw that loved it. I think you will see younger dancers, who certainly have the artistic sense and capabilities, start going back to romantic numbers.
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
To be honest, I wasn't looking at 'Tutak Tutak Tutiya' as a platform to dance again.
There's a tendency to think tap's had its day, but 'Happy Feet' kept us in the race. That penguin is our Shirley Temple.
It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
I want to see movies that explore different forms and new styles of dance, and also those that revive the old.
