Days later, following the backlash, Maks made a public plea to Jan.
“First and foremost, I want to apologize to Jan for the way my words made you feel, for hurting your feelings,” he said in an Oct. 30 Instagram video. “There’s a lot more that I want to say. I would like an opportunity to do it over coffee, or any kind of time you have to spare. I would love to meet. I would love to bury the hatchet.”
He added, “Most importantly, I think you’re going to walk away with knowing me, feeling completely different and, dare I say, we probably might even be friends.”
Clarifying that he is “not not a friend” to Jan, Maks explained his overall communication and critiquing preferences.
“Maybe it’s paradoxical, but my personality [is] ‘I love you, and I will tell you how it is,’ let alone if I don’t know you,” he continued. “So, my commentary on dance does not come with feelings and emotions, it just comes with [a] completely different range of reasoning.”
