Mikhail baryshnikov

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Shortly after moving back to the ATL, the Petite Young Blonde, delightfully discovered that the incomparable Mikhail Baryshnikov was touring and coming to the beautiful Fox Theater. The PYB adored, admired and was simply obsessed with Mr. Baryshnikov back then and had been for many, many years. In case you didn't know he is a Russian ballet dancer who defected to the United States in 1974. He fascinated the PYB and she always watched the Nutcracker on PBS every Christmas. It did not escape…

“I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that’s what I set out to do.” A large consensus of critics, dancers, and dance-loving audiences would agree that Twyla Tharp has succeeded in her mission. No one making serious dances in this country since the 1960s could ignore the challenge of her inventive, quirky, complex creations. No serious dance artist has ever stretched the boundaries between classical and popular, serious and silly, accessible and…

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Soviet-born American actor and ballet dancer who was the preeminent male classical dancer of the 1970s and ’80s. He subsequently became a noted dance director. In addition, Baryshnikov occasionally acted, and his credits included the TV series Sex and the City.

Mikhail Baryshnikov. 1987 Photograph by Eve Arnold

On July 27, 1974, Mikhail Baryshnikov made his American Ballet Theatre debut, dancing opposite fellow expatriate Natalia Makarova in Giselle mere weeks after his defection from the Soviet Union. The then-26-year-old caused a sensation, with Dance Magazine contributor Olga Maynard observing in her review, “If Baryshnikov exerts his good influences on ballet in the West […]

Place Saint-Marc, Venise - Photographie de Serge Lido