and say you did very well, that s what matters. and that took a lot of the pressure in that contest, always having her say, just dance and enjoy and just you do not need to win. just enjoy. first time in europe, you re 16 and at a major competition. what do you remember of that day and what did you dance? in lausanne, don quixote, which was one of my most important roles, don quixote. it was a solo, the third act that everybody knows because baryshnikov and nureyev, they made all that famous. so i did that. with quite a level of complexity for a 16 year old boy, no. the scissor steps at the time was quite new and advanced for a 16 year old kid,