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.
It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
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.
I want to see movies that explore different forms and new styles of dance, and also those that revive the old.
