In fact, I wasn't going to dance in Xanadu, but several journalists told me that Olivia Newton-John kept saying how sad she was that she wouldn't get the chance to dance with me. So I finally said, "All right, throw in a number." But I'm through with dancing.
I don't understand the whole concept of doubles. They used to do that in the early sound films in Hollywood, but I thought we had gotten rid of that. Now not only do you have doubles, but as in Flashdance, you have triples, quadruples. From my point of view it is bad for the art.
I think Twyla [Tharp] has a lot to say. The great thing about Twyla is that she continues to explore.
I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.
