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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-American dancer, choreographer, and actor. [ 2 ] He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s.
Gelsey Kirkland (born December 29, 1952) is an American prima ballerina. She received early ballet training at the School of American Ballet. [1] Kirkland joined the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age 15, at the invitation of George Balanchine. She was promoted to soloist in 1969, and principal in 1972. She went on to create leading roles in ...
From 1976 to 1982, she was partnered with renowned Latvian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, with whom she had her first child, Aleksandra Lange "Shura" Baryshnikov (born 1981). [121] During that time, she was also sporadically linked with Bob Fosse, with whom she remained friends until his death.
Mikhail Baryshnikov with the Royal Academy of Dance’s highest honour, the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award, in recognition of his contribution to ballet and the wider world of dance (Paul ...
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 ...
White Nights (1985 film) White Nights is a 1985 American musical drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. [ 3 ][ 4 ] It was choreographed by Twyla Tharp. The title refers to the sunlit summer nights of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), the ...
The Turning Point is a 1977 American drama film centered on the world of ballet in New York City, written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. It stars Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, along with Leslie Browne, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Tom Skerritt. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Letter To a Man (2016), directed by Robert Wilson with Mikhail Baryshnikov and played by Mikhail Baryshnikov is a staging of Nijinsky's diaries that chronicle the onset of his schizophrenia in 1919, his isolation, tormented sexuality and spirituality, and preoccupation with erstwhile lover and Ballets Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev. [68]