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Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil bɐ'rɨʂnʲɪkəf]; Latvian: Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 27, 1948) [1] is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. [2]
Baryshnikov, an ex-member of the New York City Ballet who in 2005 launched Baryshnikov Arts Centre in the city, was widely regarded as the leading male dancer in the 1970s and ’80s and was also ...
Acclaimed dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, 74, is asking that people do not blame Russian performers for the horrors of war in Ukraine. (Photo: Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images) (Steve ...
Mathilde Kschessinskaya and Pavel Gerdt in La Bayadère ballet by the ballet master Marius Petipa and the composer Ludwig Minkus, 1900 This is a list of ballet dancers from the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation, including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list includes as well those who were born in these three states but later emigrated, and those ...
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Mikhail Baryshnikov, the other great dancer who like Nureyev defected to the West, holds Nureyev in high regard. Baryshnikov said in an interview that Nureyev was an unusual man in all respects, instinctive, intelligence, constant curiosity, and extraordinary discipline, that was his goal of life and of course love in performing.
White Oak Dance Project was a dance company founded in 1990 by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mark Morris.. The company took the name of the animal preservation and land plantation owned by philanthropist and Baryshnikov friend Howard Gilman.
Premier Mikhail Gorbachev — whose Perestroika reforms liberalized the Soviet Union and who brought Sakharov back to Moscow from exile — even made an appearance.