query: Name a ballet company Mikhail Baryshnikov has danced for?

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (; ; born January 27, 1948), nicknamed "Misha" (Russian diminutive of the name "Mikhail"), is a Latvian-born Russian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev and Vladimir Vasiliev as one of the greatest male ballet dancers in history. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, Baryshnikov defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then danced with

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: December 1975, he and his dance partner Natalia Makarova featured prominently in an episode of the BBC television series "Arena". From 1974 to 1978, Baryshnikov was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), where he partnered with Gelsey Kirkland. Baryshnikov performed with the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer for 15 months from 1978 to 1979. On July 8, 1978, he made his debut with George Balanchine's and Lincoln Kirstein's company at Saratoga Springs, appearing as Franz in Coppélia. On October 12, 1979, he danced the role of the Poet in Balanchine's ballet, "La Sonnambula" with

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: the City Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington. This was Baryshnikov's last performance with New York City Ballet due to a tendinitis and other injuries. His tenure there coincided with a period of ill health that followed an earlier heart attack and culminated in successful heart surgery in June 1979. Baryshnikov left the company because he was going to leave anyway to become artistic director of American Ballet Theater in September 1980, and he needed time off because of his injuries. Baryshnikov worked with George Balanchine and as a regular guest artist with the Royal Ballet. Baryshnikov also toured

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: dancer in his distinctive style, and Baryshnikov triumphed in such signature roles as Apollo, The Prodigal Son, and Rubies. Jerome Robbins did, however, create Opus 19/The Dreamer for Baryshnikov and NYCB favorite Patricia McBride. In 1980, he became Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre and his role changed from performer to director. However, in 1989, he left when the company went behind his back and fired his second-in-command Charles France. Nevertheless, Baryshnikov's fascination with the new has stood him in good stead. As he observed, "It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: with ballet and modern dance companies around the world for fifteen months. Several roles were created for him, including roles in "Opus 19: The Dreamer" (1979), by Jerome Robbins, "Rhapsody" (1980), by Frederick Ashton, and "Other Dances" with Natalia Makarova by Jerome Robbins. Baryshnikov returned to ABT in September 1980 as an artistic director, a position he held until 1989. He also performed as a dancer with ABT. On July 3, 1986, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. From 1990 to 2002, Baryshnikov was artistic director of the White Oak Dance Project, a touring company he co-founded

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director. Baryshnikov has spearheaded many of his own artistic projects and has been associated in particular with promoting modern dance, premiering dozens of new works, including many of his own. His success as a dramatic actor on stage, cinema and television has helped him become probably the most widely recognized contemporary ballet dancer. In 1977, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe nomination for his work as "Yuri Kopeikine" in the film " The Turning Point". He also had a significant role

title: American Ballet Theatre

text: financial issues. During the 1960s and 1970s, the company's prospects brightened due to more favorable private funding. During this period, American Ballet Theatre shifted its ballet focus to the recruitment of star performers. In 1977, the company began its spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House, its new official venue. Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1980 became Artistic Director for American Ballet Theatre. Baryshnikov staged, restaged, and refurbished numerous classical ballets and, according to the company, strengthened their classical tradition. Baryshnikov was replaced in 1989 by Jane Hermann and Oliver Smith, who remained as Artistic Directors until 1992, when Kevin McKenzie received

title: John Wey Ling

text: job offer as a dancer. Some media reports characterized this as a defection, though Ling did not apply for political asylum. Ling joined the American Ballet Theatre as a soloist under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov. While at ABT, Ling danced with Rudolph Nureyev, Joyce Cuoco, Carla Stallings and many more. Ling has appeared as a guest artist with the National Ballet of Canada, the Hong Kong Ballet, the Hong Kong Dance Company, the Fort Worth City Ballet, the Dallas Ballet, and the National Ballet of Mexico. He has danced the leading roles in all the major classical ballets. In

title: Le jeune homme et la mort

text: premiere at the Ballets des Champs-Elysées with costumes by Tom Keogh. In 1951, Petit staged the ballet at American Ballet Theatre. In 1966, he filmed the ballet in France with Rudolf Nureyev and Zizi Jeanmaire. "Le Jeune Homme et la Mort" was revived by Mikhail Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theatre in 1975 and in the 1985 movie "White Nights", in arrangements by Petit for Baryshnikov. It has been in the repertoire of the Paris Opera Ballet since 1990 and was danced at its premiere there by Kader Belarbi. It has also been danced by the Ballet National de Marseilles

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: he appeared many times with American Ballet Theatre on "Live from Lincoln Center" and "Great Performances". Over the years, he has also appeared on several telecasts of the Kennedy Center Honors. Baryshnikov performed in his first film role soon after arriving in New York. He portrayed the character Yuri Kopeikine, a famous Russian womanizing ballet dancer, in the 1977 film "The Turning Point", for which he received an Oscar nomination. He co-starred with Gregory Hines and Isabella Rossellini in the 1985 film "White Nights", choreographed by Twyla Tharp; and he was featured in the 1987 film "Dancers." On television, in

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: with the ways Ailey mixed classical and modern technique and his initial discomfort when Tharp insisted he incorporate eccentric personal gestures in the dance. In 1978, he abandoned his freelance career to spend 18 months as a principal of the New York City Ballet, run by the legendary George Balanchine. "Mr. B," as Balanchine was known, rarely welcomed guest artists and had refused to work with both Nureyev and Makarova. Baryshnikov's decision to devote his full attentions to the New York company stunned the dance world. Balanchine never created a new work for Baryshnikov, though he did coach the young

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: prize in the junior division of the Varna International Ballet Competition. He joined the Mariinsky Ballet, which was then called the Kirov Ballet, in 1967, dancing the "Peasant" pas de deux in "Giselle". Recognizing Baryshnikov's talent, in particular the strength of his stage presence and purity of his classical technique, several Soviet choreographers, including Oleg Vinogradov, Konstantin Sergeyev, Igor Tchernichov, and Leonid Jakobson, choreographed ballets for him. Baryshnikov made signature roles of Jakobson's 1969 virtuosic "Vestris" along with an intensely emotional Albrecht in "Giselle". While still in the Soviet Union, he was called by "New York Times" critic Clive Barnes

title: Contemporary ballet

text: and ideas. During this period, other choreographers such as John Butler and Glen Tetley began to consciously combine ballet and modern techniques in experimentation. One dancer who trained with Balanchine and absorbed much of this neoclassical style was Mikhail Baryshnikov. Following Baryshnikov's appointment as artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre in 1980, he worked with various modern choreographers, most notably Twyla Tharp. Tharp choreographed "Push Comes To Shove" for ABT and Baryshnikov in 1976; in 1986 she created "In The Upper Room" for her own company. Both of these pieces were considered innovative for their use of distinctly modern

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: television, and it has remained to this day the most popular and most often shown television production of the work, at least in the US. In addition to Baryshnikov in the title role, Gelsey Kirkland, Alexander Minz, and many members of the American Ballet Theatre also starred. The production was videotaped in Canada. After being shown a few times by CBS, it moved to PBS, where it was shown annually every Christmas season for many years, and still is by some PBS stations. It was first released on DVD by MGM/UA. The remastered DVD of the performance, issued by Kultur

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: Ana Laguna; and in 2011, when he starred in nine performances of "In Paris" at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv. In an interview to Haaretz newspaper in 2011, he expressed his opposition to artistic boycotts of Israel and described the enthusiasm of Israeli contemporary dance as astounding. Baryshnikov made his American television dancing debut in 1976, on the PBS program "In Performance Live from Wolf Trap". The program is currently distributed on DVD by Kultur Video. During the Christmas season of 1977, CBS brought his highly acclaimed American Ballet Theatre production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet "The Nutcracker" to

title: István Martin

text: István Martin István Martin is a Franco-Hungarian ballet dancer. After studying at the Hungarian Dance Academy, Martin worked at Vaganova Ballet Academy of Saint Petersburg. In 1990, he was invited by Mikhail Baryshnikov to spend a month with the soloists of the American Ballet Theatre. His first professional experience was with Iván Markó, choreographer and artistic director of the Ballet of Györ. After his first engagement in 1990/1991 at the Ballet of Györ, Martin danced in several of Markó's pieces: "Dance Meditation" (1992, Hungarian television), "Jerusalem Lights" (Spring Board Company in Israel, 1992/1993). He also danced in "Desert Wanderer" (Jerusalem

title: Yvonne Borree

text: Yvonne Borree Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet. She was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age. She attended the School of American Ballet for three summers and was invited to enter SAB full-time in 1985. Two years later Yvonne became an apprentice with SAB's parent company, New York City Ballet, and joined the corps de ballet in 1988. she danced with guest artist Mikhail Baryshnikov in George Balanchine's "Duo Concertant" in Spring, 1992. Ms. Borree was promoted to the rank

title: Marina Eglevsky

text: Ballet. She danced with dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Lawrence Rhodes, Helgi Tomasson and skater John Curry. Eglevsky was a featured artist in the Broadway revival production of "Brigadoon" under the direction of Vivian Matalon and Agnes de Mille. Marina Eglevsky Marina Eglevsky is an American ballet dancer born in New York City. She is the daughter of ballet star Andre Eglevsky and ballerina Leda Anchutina Eglevsky. Marina studied at the School of American Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre School. Marina performed professionally in New York City Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker," with the Eglevsky Ballet Company, and as

title: Susan Jaffe

text: At age 16 she became a member of ABT II, and joined ABT's corps de ballet at age 18. Mikhail Baryshnikov, ABT's artistic director at the time, pulled Jaffe out of the corps de ballet to replace Gelsey Kirkland in a gala performance. With two days of rehearsal, Jaffe danced Pas d'Esclave at the Kennedy Center in Washington with the late Alexander Godunov, a Bolshoi Ballet star whose former partner had been Maya Plisetskaya. Jaffe remained a principal dancer with ABT for the following 22 years. Jaffe danced many roles: Odette/Odile (she danced her first "Swan Lake" at the age

title: Rolando Sarabia

text: Rolando Sarabia Rolando Sarabia Oquendo (born 18 August 1982) is a Cuban ballet dancer. He is an acclaimed Principal Dancer for The Washington Ballet under artistic director Julie Kent. He has danced with many companies including the Cuban National Ballet, the Houston Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre as a guest artist in 2011. Erika Kinetz of "The New York Times" called him the "Cuban Nijinsky" and compared him to the young Mikhail Baryshnikov. Sarabia was born in Havana, Cuba, on 18 August 1982. His father was a ballet dancer with the Cuban National Ballet. Rolando grew up,

title: Keith Roberts (dancer)

text: decided to pursue a professional career. He moved away from home at thirteen to attend the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, from which he graduated in 1987. Roberts also attended the School of American Ballet Summer Program and danced with Julie Kent at the School of American Ballet's New Choreography workshop performance in July 1986. In 1987, aged seventeen, Roberts joined American Ballet Theatre (ABT) as a member of the corps de ballet at the invitation of Artistic Director (1980–89) Mikhail Baryshnikov. Baryshnikov "served as an artistic role model for Roberts" and "suggested to Twyla Tharp that

title: Amanda McKerrow

text: her sophomore year she dropped out of high school and joined The Washington Ballet (TWB). McKerrow danced with The Washington Ballet for two years from 1980 to 1982. She joined American Ballet Theatre under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1982. She was appointed Soloist in 1983 and Principal Dancer in 1987. She retired from performing in 2005. In 2014 McKerrow began teaching and staging performances at ABT. She also teaches at Washington University and at dance festivals. In addition to her ballet career, she has appeared in several films: ‘’Variety and Virtuosity: American Ballet Theatre Now (1998),’’ ‘’American Ballet

title: Lea Thompson

text: Minnesota, one of five children of Clifford and Barbara Barry Thompson. She has two sisters, Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona and two brothers, Andrew (ballet dancer) and Barry. Her mother is of Irish descent. She studied ballet as a girl and danced professionally by the age of 14, winning scholarships to the American Ballet Theatre, the San Francisco Ballet, and the Pennsylvania Ballet. Told she did not have the right body to become a prima ballerina by Mikhail Baryshnikov himself, she changed her focus to acting. At the time, she was 20 years old and dancing professionally with American Ballet

title: Alexander Godunov

text: allowed the plane to depart. This incident was dramatised in a 1986 movie, "Flight 222". Vlasova later said that while Godunov loved American culture and had long desired to live in the United States, she felt she was "too Russian" to live in the United States. The couple divorced in 1982. Godunov joined the American Ballet Theatre and danced as a principal dancer until 1982, when he had a falling-out with Mikhail Baryshnikov, the director of the company. A press release for the American Ballet Theatre stated a change in the troupe's repertoire did not provide him with sufficient roles.

title: Katharine Wildish

text: from 1981–83, where she performed a variety of Balanchine pieces. She was hand-picked to perform in Adagio Lamentoso, one of his last works. Wildish danced with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) from 1985-87. Under artistic direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov, she performed in traditional works. Sir Kenneth MacMillan, in his version of Sleeping Beauty for ABT, created the role of the “knitting lady” for Wildish. Wildish performed as a guest artist with a number of prominent companies, including The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Eglevsky Ballet, Bernhard Ballet, Connecticut Ballet, Louisville Ballet, The American Dance Machine, Dances Patrelle, Fokine Ballet (as the

title: American Ballet Theatre

text: leaving the company. Perhaps no other choreographer was as closely associated with ABT as the great British choreographer Antony Tudor, who made his American debut with the company. The other continuous creative force was the legendary Agnes de Mille. She staged the majority of her ballet works with them. Many choreographers have mounted works especially for ABT, including George Balanchine, Adolph Bolm, Michel Fokine, Léonide Massine, and Bronislava Nijinska. Other renowned choreographers who have worked at ABT include Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, and Alvin Ailey. ABT's 1976 production of "The Nutcracker" starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland was televised the

title: Patrick Bissell

text: attracted attention, both from his fiery dancing and his habit of wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots around New York City-—his way of distinguishing he was a true-blue native Texan. He also made his way around the city on a motorcycle. He danced the lead rôles in three of the four ballets performed by the school in its annual workshop and graduated in 1977. He became a good friend of Mikhail Baryshnikov, who praised his dancing. Bissell joined the "corps de ballet" of the American Ballet Theatre in 1977 and, after three months there, he danced the lead male

title: Ethan Stiefel

text: ABT as a principal dancer, from which he retired in 2012. He danced with the short-lived Mikhail Baryshnikov School of Classical Ballet at ABT. His dance repertoire includes many key romantic roles in both classical and contemporary ballet. He won a silver medal at the Prix de Lausanne in 1989 and also received a Princess Grace Foundation-USA grant in 1991. In 1998, Stiefel was nominated for the Benois de la Danse award as one of the rising stars in ballet. In 2007, Stiefel made his debut with the Australian Ballet in Nureyev's staging of "Don Quixote", for its Melbourne and

title: Ethan Stiefel

text: where he trained alongside Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Fernando Bujones. He studied with Baryshnikov himself at the short lived Mikhail Baryshnikov's School of Classical Ballet. He started his dancing career in 1989, when he joined the corps de ballet of New York City Ballet at age 16. In 1992, he took a leave of absence to perform with the Zürich Ballet, under directorship of Bernd R. Bienert, but returned to NYCB a year later as a soloist. By 1995, he was a principal dancer with the company. He ended his tenure with NYCB in April 1997 when he joined

title: George de la Peña

text: George de la Peña George de la Peña is an American ballet dancer, musical theatre performer, choreographer, actor, and teacher. He was born in New York City, New York, U.S. Originally trained as a concert pianist, de la Peña switched to ballet while studying at the High School for the Performing Arts in New York City. He graduated from George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. He joined American Ballet Theatre in the 1970s, rapidly rising to soloist. While at ABT, de la Peña danced in works choreographed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Agnes de Mille, Kenneth MacMillan, and Jerome Robbins, among others.

title: Helgi Tómasson (dancer)

text: 1969, at age 27, Tomasson entered the First International Ballet Competition in Moscow, representing the United States. He was allowed by Jerome Robbins to dance a solo from Robbins' "Dances at a Gathering" and returned with the Silver Medal; the Gold Medal was awarded to Mikhail Baryshnikov. During the course of the competition, the great ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who was on the jury, whispered to him, ""I gave you all my votes."" A year later, Tomasson joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer. He danced with City Ballet for 15 years, garnering worldwide recognition and performing with

title: Natalia Makarova

text: Mikhail Baryshnikov featured prominently in an episode of the BBC television series "Arena". She was featured in the 1976 live American Ballet Theatre production of "Swan Lake", simulcast from Lincoln Center on both PBS and NPR. When ABT artistic director Lucia Chase stepped down, both Makarova and Baryshnikov applied. After the company went with Baryshnikov, she left for the Royal Ballet of London. Makarova continued to excel in many different roles, most notably, her title role in "Giselle". In 1989, she returned to her home theater of the Kirov Ballet and was reunited with her family and with former colleagues

title: Michael DeLorenzo

text: York School of Ballet. He danced alongside Rudolph Nureyev and the National Ballet of Canada. DeLorenzo performed with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the American Ballet Theatre. He went on to attend the Manhattan-based High School of Performing Arts, made famous by the movie and television series Fame. He suffered a serious dance injury forcing him to leave a career in professional ballet. One of DeLorenzo's first acting roles was on stage in the Broadway revival of "West Side Story", appearing as one of the members of the Sharks street gang. He then moved on to appear in the 1980 movie "Fame"

title: Eliot Feld

text: graduates. In 2003, Feld disbanded the Feld Ballet to focus on his schools. Today, Ballet Tech’s activities include the tuition-free New York City Public School for Dance, and Kids Dance, a pre-professional children’s group. Feld has choreographed 147 ballets since 1967, with his work being performed by the American Ballet Company, American Ballet Theatre, the Atlanta Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Feld Ballets/NY & Ballet Tech & Kids Dance, the Boston Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the John Curry Skating Company, the Juilliard School, the London Festival Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, the New York City Ballet, the New York City Opera,

title: Twyla Tharp

text: of Tharp's works. In 2010, they had a total of 20 of her works in their repertory. Tharp has since choreographed dances for: Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance and Martha Graham Dance Company. Tharp also created the dance roadshow "Cutting Up" (1991) with Mikhail Baryshnikov, which went on to tour and appeared in 28 cities over two months. In the summer of 2000, Twyla Tharp Dance regrouped with entirely new dancers. This Tharp dance company also performed around the

title: István Martin

text: "Picasso". He participated with the soloists of the Opéra National de Bordeaux in a gala in Oviedo, Málaga, Izmir, and Budapest. Recently he danced "Les Noces", "The Rite of Spring" and "The Prodigal Son" in Spain's Festival International de Musica y Danza de Granada, as well as Carlotta Ikuda's "Zatoïchi". István Martin István Martin is a Franco-Hungarian ballet dancer. After studying at the Hungarian Dance Academy, Martin worked at Vaganova Ballet Academy of Saint Petersburg. In 1990, he was invited by Mikhail Baryshnikov to spend a month with the soloists of the American Ballet Theatre. His first professional experience was

title: Aszure Barton

text: Aszure Barton Aszure Barton is a Canadian-born choreographer. Aszure Barton was born and raised in Alberta, Canada. She received her formal training at the National Ballet School in Toronto, where, as a student, she helped originate the ongoing Stephen Godfrey Choreographic Showcase. To date, she has collaborated with and created works for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ekaterina Shipulina/Bolshoi Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Houston Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Martha Graham Dance Company, Nederlands Dans Theater, Sydney Dance Company, Ballet British Columbia, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Juilliard School, and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (Resident Choreographer 2005-08). Other work includes

title: Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux

text: although Patricia McBride, dancing with Edward Villella or Mikhail Baryshnikov, came close to matching her. Other remarkable performances at New York City Ballet were given by Nichol Hlinka and Damian Woetzel and by Tiler Peck and Joaquin De Luz, among others. With American Ballet Theater, Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky showed their Ukrainian training in the piece, while Gillian Murphy with David Hallberg or Ethan Stieffel brought a distinctly American brightness to it. At the Paris Opera, the ballerina role was more or less owned for several years by Aurélie Dupont, who often danced with Manuel Legris or Hervé Moreau.

title: Raymonda

text: full-length "Raymonda", for the most part taken from the "Grand Pas Classique hongrois" from the third act, which is considered to be among Marius Petipa's supreme masterpieces. The most noted of these productions have been staged by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet (1955, 1961, 1973); Rudolf Nureyev for the Royal Ballet Touring Company (1964); and Mikhail Baryshnikov for American Ballet Theatre (1980, 1987). In 2005 the Australian Ballet Company performed a modern version of "Raymonda" set in the 1950s, where Raymonda is a Hollywood star who has filmed her last film before marrying a European prince. It

title: Carolina Ballet

text: in the Triangle region was not only needed but desired as well. Robert Weiss, former principal dancer with New York City Ballet and past artistic director of Pennsylvania Ballet, was selected in April 1997 as the founding artistic director of the new professional company, known as Carolina Ballet, Inc. Dancers of the Carolina Ballet, as of April 2016: Carolina Ballet Carolina Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1997 which performs primarily in Raleigh, North Carolina and throughout the state. It has toured to New York City, Hungary and China. Robert Weiss, the artistic director, danced for George Balanchine for

title: Julie Kent (dancer)

text: Ballet Theatre II summer school and the School of American Ballet. She took the stage name Julie Kent at the suggestion of Mikhail Baryshnikov. Kent joined American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in 1985, became a member of the company's corps de ballet in 1986, was promoted to soloist in 1990, and to principal dancer in 1993. She is known as a skilled dramatic dancer. She was often partnered with ABT Principal Ethan Stiefel, even co-starring with him in the film Center Stage. Her roles with the Company include the Girl in "Afternoon of a Faun", the title role in

title: Carolina Ballet

text: Carolina Ballet Carolina Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1997 which performs primarily in Raleigh, North Carolina and throughout the state. It has toured to New York City, Hungary and China. Robert Weiss, the artistic director, danced for George Balanchine for sixteen years at New York City Ballet and attained the rank of principal dancer. Lynne Taylor-Corbett is principal guest choreographer. One of Carolina Ballet's most popular performances, The Nutcracker, is performed annually. Carolina Ballet currently has about 35 dancers. Carolina Ballet, Inc. was founded in 1984 as Raleigh Dance Theatre, Inc. by Ann Vorus, owner of the Raleigh

title: History of ballet

text: artistic director of American Ballet Theatre in 1980, he worked with various modern choreographers, most notably Twyla Tharp. Tharp choreographed "Push Comes To Shove" for ABT and Baryshnikov in 1976; in 1986 she created "In The Upper Room" for her own company. Both these pieces were considered innovative for their use of distinctly modern movements melded with the use of pointe shoes and classically trained dancers—for their use of contemporary ballet. Tharp also worked with the Joffrey Ballet company, founded in 1957 by Robert Joffrey. She choreographed "Deuce Coupe" for them in 1973, using pop music and a blend of

title: Rudolf Kharatyan

text: alongside classmate Mikhail Baryshnikov. From 1967 to 1990 he has been a principal dancer of the Armenian National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. From 1979 to 1991 he headed the art department of the Chamber Ballet of Armenia. Kharatyan headed the dance department of the Yerevan School of the Arts from 1973 to 1979. He toured the world with the Bolshoi Ballet and Stars of the Russian Ballet. Since 1999 he is the founding Artistic director of the "ARKA" Ballet (ARKA is the Armenian word for "king") in Washington, DC. The company debuted in April 1999 at the Kennedy

title: History of ballet

text: Serge Diaghilev's abstract ballets. "Apollo" and other works are still performed today, predominantly by the New York City Ballet. However, other companies are able to pay a fee for performance rights to George Balanchine's works. Frederick Ashton is another prominent choreographer associated with the neoclassical style. Three of his works have become standard pieces in the international repertoire: "Sylvia" (1952), "Romeo and Juliet" (1956), and "Ondine" (1958), the last of which was created as a vehicle to showcase Margot Fonteyn. One dancer who trained with Balanchine and absorbed much of this neo-classical style was Mikhail Baryshnikov. Following Baryshnikov's appointment as

title: Eliot Feld

text: Eliot Feld Eliot Feld (born July 5, 1942) is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer, teacher, and director. Feld works in an atmosphere between modern dance and classical ballet. His company and schools, including the Feld Ballet and Ballet Tech, are deeply committed to dance and dance education in New York City. Feld has choreographed nearly 150 ballets since 1967, with his work being performed by such companies as American Ballet Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet, the Juilliard School, New York City Ballet, the New York City Opera, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, among many others. Feld was born in Brooklyn, New York,

title: Mikhail Mordkin

text: America. Mikhail Mordkin died in Millbrook, New York. Mikhail Mordkin Mikhail Mordkin (; December 9, 1880, Moscow, Russian Empire - July 15, 1944, New York) graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet School in 1899, and in the same year was appointed ballet master. He joined Diaghilev's ballet in 1909 as a leading dancer. After the first season he remained in Paris to dance with Pavlova. He then formed his own company, the All Star Imperial Russian Ballet, which toured America in 1911 and 1912. Mikhail returned to the Bolshoi and was appointed its director in 1917. He left Russia after the

title: Kansas City Ballet

text: of the 1969-70 season, Solov returned to Kansas City to create and present three world premiere ballets with the KCB: The World I Knew (set to Massenet's Scenes Alsaciennes), Zygosis, and Divertissement. Lead roles in the first piece were danced by New York City Ballet guest artists Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden. For the spring 1970 performance, the KCB presented the ballet Laurencia, staged by guest artists. In 1970, the mayor of Kansas City, Ilus Winfield Davis proclaimed a special “Civic Ballet Week." During the 1970-1971 season, the company name changed back to Kansas City Ballet. In the spring of

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: married in 2006. Specials Also appeared in "Prodigal Son," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux," and "Other Dances," all Dance in America, PBS; Baryshnikov: The Dancer and the Dance, PBS; and Carmen, on French television. Series Television work Series Television artistic director Specials Television choreographer Specials Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (; ; born January 27, 1948), nicknamed "Misha" (Russian diminutive of the name "Mikhail"), is a Latvian-born Russian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev and Vladimir Vasiliev as one of the greatest male ballet dancers in history. After

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: Video in 2004, is a bestseller during the Christmas season. The DVD has now been released in the UK by Digital Classics. Although Tchaikovsky's ballet has been presented on TV many times in many different versions, the Baryshnikov version is one of only two to be nominated for an Emmy Award. The other one was Mark Morris' "The Hard Nut", Morris's intentionally exaggerated and satirical version of the ballet. Baryshnikov also performed in two Emmy-winning television specials, one on ABC and one on CBS, in which he danced to music from Broadway and Hollywood, respectively. During the 1970s and 1980s,

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: in the last season of the television series "Sex and the City" and starred in the movie "White Nights" with Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, and Isabella Rossellini. Mikhail Baryshnikov was born in Riga, then Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, now Latvia. His parents were Russians: Alexandra (a dressmaker; "née" Kiselyova) and Nikolay Baryshnikov (an engineer). His mother committed suicide when he was in his early teens. He began his ballet studies in Riga in 1960, at the age of 11. In 1964, he entered the Vaganova School, in what was then in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Baryshnikov soon won the top

title: The Prodigal Son (ballet)

text: of the same name). Mikhail Baryshnikov danced it with City Ballet in 1979 and Damian Woetzel danced it at his farewell performance on Wednesday, 18 June 2008. The Prodigal Son (ballet) The Prodigal Son, or Le Fils prodigue, Op. 46 () is a ballet created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine to music by Sergei Prokofiev (1928–29). The libretto, based on the parable in the Gospel of Luke, was by Boris Kochno, who added a good deal of drama and emphasized the theme of sin and redemption ending with the Prodigal Son's return. Susan Au writes in "Ballet and

title: Shura Baryshnikov

text: Shura Baryshnikov Aleksandra Lange "Shura" Baryshnikov (born 1981) is an American dancer, choreographer, dance educator and actress. Aleksandra Lange Baryshnikov is the daughter of ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and actress Jessica Lange. She has five half-siblings; three on her father's side, including actress Anna Baryshnikov, and two on her mother's side. Baryshnikov trained in classical ballet as a child, and grew up accompanying her mother to different filming locations. In high school Baryshnikov ran track, rode horses, and played field hockey. She went on to attend Marlboro College in Vermont, where she majored in American studies and also studied theatre

title: Louisville Ballet

text: with which Mikhail Baryshnikov has performed in repertoire productions (He danced with the company during the 1978–79 and 1979–80 seasons). The Ballet has more than 60 world premieres to its credit with a repertoire of about 150 pieces choreographed by the likes of Sir Frederick Ashton, Erik Bruhn, George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, John Cranko, Jack Carter, Kurt Jooss, Choo San Goh, Jose Limon, Paul Taylor, David Parsons, Eugene Loring, Saeko Ichinohe and Domy Reiter-Soffer, along with Fokine and Bournonville ballets. The Ballet also presents several full length ballets each year including Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, Romeo and Juliet,

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: Soviet dance world hewed closely to 19th-century traditions and deliberately shunned the creative choreographers of the West, whose work Baryshnikov glimpsed in occasional tours and films. Baryshnikov's main goal in leaving the Soviet Union was to work with these innovators. In the first two years after his defection, he danced for no fewer than 13 different choreographers, including Jerome Robbins, Glen Tetley, Alvin Ailey, and Twyla Tharp. "It doesn't matter if every ballet is a success or not," he told "New York Times" dance critic Anna Kisselgoff in 1976, "The new experience gives me a lot." He cited his fascination

title: Anna Baryshnikov

text: Anna Baryshnikov Anna Katerina Baryshnikov (born May 22, 1992) is an American actress. She had her breakout role as Sandy in the 2016 film "Manchester by the Sea" as well as being a series regular in the CBS sitcom "Superior Donuts" in its first season. Baryshnikov is the daughter of Russian American ballet dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov and former ballet dancer Lisa Rinehart. As a young girl, Baryshnikov tried taking beginner's ballet classes but decided she was unsuited for discipline, as she was too hyperactive and talkative when she was supposed to be focused at the barre. Her elder

title: Shura Baryshnikov

text: of Oscar Wilde’s "Salome" at Boston’s Bridge Repertory Theater and was a cast member in Trinity Rep's production of the musical "Oklahoma!". Her performance work has been presented by the RISD Museum, Providence Fringe Festival, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and in the Moving Arts Lab at Earthdance. Shura Baryshnikov Aleksandra Lange "Shura" Baryshnikov (born 1981) is an American dancer, choreographer, dance educator and actress. Aleksandra Lange Baryshnikov is the daughter of ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and actress Jessica Lange. She has five half-siblings; three on her father's side, including actress Anna Baryshnikov, and two on her

title: Anna Baryshnikov

text: the end of Season 1. In 2017, she appeared in the Broadway production of the play "Time and the Conways." In 2018, she appeared in drama film "The Kindergarten Teacher". Anna Baryshnikov Anna Katerina Baryshnikov (born May 22, 1992) is an American actress. She had her breakout role as Sandy in the 2016 film "Manchester by the Sea" as well as being a series regular in the CBS sitcom "Superior Donuts" in its first season. Baryshnikov is the daughter of Russian American ballet dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov and former ballet dancer Lisa Rinehart. As a young girl, Baryshnikov tried

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: 23, 2008, from Montclair State University. For the duration of the 2006 Summer, Baryshnikov went on tour with Hell's Kitchen Dance, which was sponsored by the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Featuring works by Baryshnikov Arts Center residents Azsure Barton and Benjamin Millepied, the company toured the United States and Brazil. In late August 2007, Baryshnikov performed Mats Ek's "Place" (original Swedish title, "Ställe") with Ana Laguna at Dansens Hus in Stockholm. Baryshnikov has performed in Israel three times: in 1996, when he appeared with the White Oak Dance Project at the Roman amphitheater in Caesarea; in 2010, when he performed with

title: A Month in the Country (ballet)

text: and Michael Coleman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bruce Sansom and Ivan Putrov as Belaiev. The work was performed by the Royal Ballet every season from 1976 to 1979 and has been regularly revived at Covent Garden. It has also been seen on tour in New York and Havana. In 1995, Dowell mounted the ballet for the National Ballet of Canada with Karen Kain as Natalia and Robert Conn as Beliaev, the first time it had been performed by any other company. Peggy Ashcroft — after seeing a performance — told Ashton that she thought his adaptation was better than the original. The

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: "the most perfect dancer I have ever seen." On June 29, 1974, while on tour in Canada with the Mariinsky Ballet, Baryshnikov defected, requesting political asylum in Toronto, and joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He also announced to the dance world that he would not go back to the USSR. He later stated that Christina Berlin, an American friend, helped engineer his defection during his 1970 tour of London. His first televised performance after coming out of temporary seclusion in Canada was with the National Ballet of Canada in "La Sylphide". He then went on to the United States. In

title: Yacobson Ballet

text: Yacobson Ballet Yacobson Ballet is a Russian ballet company. It was founded in 1969 by Ballet Master and choreographer Leonid Yacobson. It was the first Russian independent company - not associated with an Opera - it gained prominence within the Russian ballet landscape and received the title of "Miniature Company", referring to the short lengths of the pieces created by its founder. During seven years as a director, Yacobson worked on the development of dance in Russia and collaborated with dancers including Natalia Makarova, Alla Osipenko, Maya Plisetskaya and Mikhail Baryshnikov. After Yacobson's death in 1976, his closest collaborator opened

title: National Ballet of Canada

text: year, in 1974, while on a tour in Canada, Mikhail Baryshnikov defected and requested political asylum in Toronto and joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. His first televised performance after coming out of temporary seclusion in Canada was with the National Ballet of Canada in a version of "La Sylphide". National Ballet of Canada One of the top international ballet companies, The National Ballet of Canada was founded in 1951 by Celia Franca. A company of 70 dancers with its own orchestra, the National Ballet has been led by Artistc Director Karen Kain, one of the greatest ballerinas of her generation,

title: Oklahoma City Ballet

text: by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects. Oklahoma City Ballet’s repertory includes works by George Balanchine, Gerald Arpino, Anthony Tudor, Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, Twyla Tharp, Jessica Lang, Nicolo Fonte, Stanton Welch, Perrot, Coralli, Fokine, Petipa, Bournonville and Artistic Director Robert Mills. Oklahoma City Ballet has also presented special dance attractions as part of its role in serving the community. In the past, it has sponsored performances by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, the San Francisco Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The Oklahoma City Ballet tours regionally and is the resident dance company of the Civic

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: States. They remained friends until Brodsky's death in 1996.) Baryshnikov has a daughter, Aleksandra 'Shura' Baryshnikova (born 1981), from his relationship with actress Jessica Lange. When Baryshnikov and Lange met, he spoke very little English; they communicated in French instead. He eventually learned English by watching television. Baryshnikov has had a long-term relationship with former ballerina Lisa Rinehart. They had three children together: Peter (born July 7, 1989), Anna (born May 22, 1992), and Sofia (born May 24, 1994). Though he told Larry King in 2002 that he did not "believe in marriage in the conventional way", he and Rinehart

title: The Washington Ballet

text: first two years in Washington DC moved the company from being described as "pre-professional" to solidly professional level, with Mikhail Baryshnikov showing interest in, and eventually dancing with, the company and Goh's choreography in 1979. During his time at The Washington Ballet until his death in November 1987, Goh choreographed 19 ballets for the company. In 1980, 17-year-old company member Amanda McKerrow was chosen as one of nine dancers to compete on the official U.S. dance team at the Fourth International Ballet Competition in Moscow. She partnered with Simon Dow and won the gold medal, becoming the first United States

title: Ana Laguna

text: television and live dance, as well as serving as a choreographic assistant with a variety of companies and countries such as Nederlands Dans Theater and the Spanish National Dance Company, as well as with her husband. She has worked as a professor, on the Swedish National Council for Dance Education, and in 2006 was the first dancer outside the Royal Ballet to be appointed as an official Court Dancer. Ana Laguna Ana Laguna (born 1955) is a Spanish-Swedish ballet dancer, court dancer and professor. She has danced throughout the world with such legends as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov earning

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: with Mark Morris. In 2003, he won the Prix Benois de la Danse for lifetime achievement. In 2005 he launched the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. In 2012, Baryshnikov received the Vilcek Prize in Dance. On April 27, 2017, Baryshnikov was granted citizenship by the Republic of Latvia for extraordinary merits. The application to the Latvian parliament along with a letter from Baryshnikov in which he expressed his wish to become a citizen of what today constitutes his native country was submitted on December 21, 2016. He stated that the decision was based on memories of his first 16

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: Waters' restaurant "Chez Panisse." On July 17, 2007, the PBS "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" featured a profile of Baryshnikov and his Arts Center. Baryshnikov appears, uncredited, in the 2014 film "" as Interior Minister Sorokin. In a continuation of his interest in modern dance, Baryshnikov appeared in 2015 in a three-and-a-half minute commercial for the clothing designer Rag & Bone along with the street dance artist Lil Buck with both performing dance roles. Baryshnikov is a performer in avant-garde theater. His breakthrough performance in Broadway was back in 1989 when he played Gregor Samsa in Metamorphosis, an adaption of

title: Judith Jamison

text: throughout the dance world. Today, "Cry" remains a crowd favorite and is still featured in the company's repertoire. Throughout her years with Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Jamison continued to perform all over the world. Along with her work with Ailey's company, she also appeared as a guest artist with the Cullberg Ballet, Swedish Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and numerous other companies. She danced alongside many renowned dancers, including the ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov, in a duet entitled "Pas de Duke", choreographed by Alvin Ailey in 1976. Finally, in 1980, she left Ailey's company to perform in the Broadway musical,

title: Cléopâtre (ballet)

text: Cléopâtre (ballet) Cléopâtre is a ballet in one act with choreography by Mikhail Fokine and music by Arensky. It includes music Anton Arensky, Alexander Taneyev, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Glazunov, Modeste Mussorgsky, Nikolai Tcherepnin as well. Scenery and costumes were created by Léon Baskt. The first production opened at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on June 2, 1909. The ballet starred Anna Pavlova as Ta-hor and Ida Rubinstein as Cleopatra. Mikhail Fokine himself danced Amoun. The favourite slaves of Cleopatra were danced by Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky. Other characters included Servants of the Temple, Egyptian Dancers, Greeks, Satyrs,

title: Ballet

text: ballet took a turn dividing it from classical ballet to the introduction of modern dance, leading to modernist movements in several countries. Famous dancers of the twentieth century include Anna Pavlova, Galina Ulanova, Rudolf Nureyev, Maya Plisetskaya, Margot Fonteyn, Rosella Hightower, Maria Tall Chief, Erik Bruhn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Suzanne Farrell, Gelsey Kirkland, Natalia Makarova, and Arthur Mitchell. Stylistic variations and subgenres have evolved over time. Early, classical variations are primarily associated with geographic origin. Examples of this are Russian ballet, French ballet, and Italian ballet. Later variations, such as contemporary ballet and neoclassical ballet, incorporate both classical ballet and non-traditional

title: Shura Baryshnikov

text: and contemporary dance. While at Marlboro she was a member of the student a cappella group Five-O’Clock Bells. Baryshnikov is a teaching associate in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, working primarily within the Masters of Fine Arts Programs for actors and directors teaching contact improvisation, movement, and dance. She has worked as a choreographer and movement consultant for Trinity Repertory Company, The Wilbury Theatre Group, and Elemental Theatre Collective. As a freelance dancer, she has performed in works by Heidi Henderson, Ali Kenner-Brodsky and Betsy Miller. She has also danced with Aerplaye Dance, American

title: Ana Laguna

text: Ana Laguna Ana Laguna (born 1955) is a Spanish-Swedish ballet dancer, court dancer and professor. She has danced throughout the world with such legends as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov earning prizes for her performances from France, Italy, Monoco, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States. Ana Maria Laguna Caso was born 16 May 1954 in Zaragoza, Spain. Laguna grew up in Spain, beginning her ballet studies with Maria de Avila and by age eighteen was dancing at the "Real Ballet de Cámara" (The Royal Chamber Ballet). In 1973, she was offered work at the Cullberg Ballet in Sweden and

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: April 21, 2015, "The New York Times" reported that Baryshnikov was scheduled to perform a reading of the Nobel Laureate poet Joseph Brodsky in Riga in 2015. The performance was called "Brodsky/Baryshnikov," was performed in the original Russian, and had its premiere on October 15, 2015. Its international tour began in Tel Aviv in January 2016 and it was later staged in New York City in March 2016, still in the original Russian. (Baryshnikov met Brodsky in 1974, soon after the poet had been forced by the Soviet authorities to leave his home country and had moved to the United

title: Shanghai Ballet Company

text: the Shanghai Ballet Company since he was 12. He was awarded with the Bronze Medal in the 1st National Ballet Competition of China in 1985 and the prize for Encourage in Shanghai Dance Competition in 1991. He danced leading roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, the Nutcracker, the White-haired Girl, The Butterfly Lovers, Coppelia, La Sylphide, Sleeping Beauty, The Latest Time, etc. He has also appeared in a Shanghai TV dancing show. Since its founding, many young dancers of the company have won total of 37 medals in various international dance competitions. The Shanghai Ballet is active in

title: Shura Baryshnikov

text: Dance Legacy Initiative, Festival Ballet Providence, Bridge Rep of Boston, Elemental Theatre Collective and Lostwax Multimedia Dance. She is on the faculty at Festival Ballet Providence School and has taught movement at Earthdance in Plainfield, Massachusetts, and at Salve Regina University, Connecticut College, Dean College, Rhode Island College, and MIT. She is also a dance teacher at the Moses Brown School. She trained in Viewpoints improvisational techniques with the SITI Company under Anne Bogart. She is a member of Actors' Equity Association. Baryshnikov is the co-founder, along with Danielle Davidson, of the Doppelganger Dance Collective. She starred in a production

title: Don Quixote (ballet)

text: first by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The first full-length production mounted outside of Russia was a completely new staging, produced and choreographed by Ninette de Valois for The Royal Ballet in 1950. The first full revival of the original Russian production to be staged in the West was by Ballet Rambert in 1962. In 1966 Rudolf Nureyev staged his version for the Vienna State Opera Ballet, with Minkus' score adapted by John Lanchbery. In 1973, Nureyev filmed his version with the Australian Ballet and Robert Helpmann as Don Quixote. Mikhail Baryshnikov mounted his own version in 1980 for

title: Baryshnikov Arts Center

text: Baryshnikov Arts Center The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) is a foundation and arts complex opened by Mikhail Baryshnikov in 2005 at 450 West 37th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The top three floors of the complex are occupied by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, which provides space and production facilities for dance, music, theater, film, and visual arts. The building also houses the Orchestra of St. Luke's DiMenna Center for Classical Music. The building is a 50,000 square foot complex which includes three theatre spaces. Ground was broken on the

title: Evann Siebens

text: Royal Ballet School in London, England. She danced with the National Ballet of Canada and the Bonn Ballet in Germany. Siebens graduated from New York University in 1996, with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude. She participated in residencies at the Banff Centre, Banff, Calgary, UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, and ACME, London UK, with Keith Doyle. Siebens has filmed dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Boal, Viola Farber, Bill T. Jones, Jose Navas, and Sara Rudner. Siebens' documentaries have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York and on PBS. Siebens has exhibited at Eyebeam, Centre Georges

title: Lexington Ballet Company

text: Ballet School offers year-round classical ballet training for youth and adults. Additional class offerings include barre classes, contemporary master classes, and sports conditioning. Lexington Ballet hosts a Music Art Dance Camp (MAD Camp) each summer. Nancy Dominguez trained at the Chicago City Ballet, under the direction of Ballerina Maria Tallchief. She danced professionally at State Ballet of Missouri, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet New England, and Dance Theatre of Harlem under Arthur Mitchell. Lexington Ballet Company presents four or five classical and neoclassical productions each year in the central Kentucky area. "New Works & Other Voices", The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, The Tales

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: the last season of "Sex and the City", he played a Russian artist, Aleksandr Petrovsky, who woos Carrie Bradshaw relentlessly and takes her to Paris. He co-starred in "Company Business" (1991) with Gene Hackman. On November 2, 2006, Baryshnikov and chef Alice Waters were featured on an episode of the Sundance Channel's original series "Iconoclasts". The two have a long friendship. They discussed their lifestyles, sources of inspiration, and social projects that make them unique. During the program, Alice Waters visited Baryshnikov's Arts Center in New York City. The Hell's Kitchen Dance tour brought him to Berkeley to visit Alice

title: David Howard (ballet teacher)

text: head, limbs and torso in space". Howard said of dance that “Out of the feeling comes the form...Ninety percent of the time students are taught the form first. And then they’re expected, through some act of God, to get the feeling.” Howard's pupils included Gelsey Kirkland, Patricia McBride and Mikhail Baryshnikov. McBride paid tribute to Howard describing him as "...one of the great teachers of our day, for many, many years,” and Baryshnikov said of Howard that "He was a kind of father figure for people like me and like Gelsey.” David Howard (ballet teacher) David Howard (born David Charles

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: Franz Kafka's novel by the same name. His debut earned him a Tony nomination. In 2004, he appeared in "Forbidden Christmas or The Doctor And The Patient" at New York City's Lincoln Center, and in 2007 in "Beckett Shorts" at New York Theatre Workshop. On April 11–21, 2012, Baryshnikov starred in a new play directed by Dmitry Krymov, titled "In Paris". The play was presented in the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center, at the Broad Stage. His co-star was Anna Sinyakina. He then appeared in the stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "Man in a Case". As he said: On

title: Mikhail Dudko

text: age of 78. Mikhail Dudko Mikhail Andreyevich Dudko () was a Russian Soviet ballet dancer, born on , Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, and died on 11 September 1981, Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). Mikhail Dudko was accepted into the Imperial theatre school at the St. Petersburg Imperial troupe. His teachers were Samuil Andrianov, Viktor Semyonov (teacher and first husband of Marina Semyonova), and Leonid Leontyev. He showed his outstanding talent and was considered a future star of ballet. During an exam, he danced with a student, Lidya Ivanova, a performance that was so successful that all the teachers believed

title: Mikhail Dudko

text: Mikhail Dudko Mikhail Andreyevich Dudko () was a Russian Soviet ballet dancer, born on , Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, and died on 11 September 1981, Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). Mikhail Dudko was accepted into the Imperial theatre school at the St. Petersburg Imperial troupe. His teachers were Samuil Andrianov, Viktor Semyonov (teacher and first husband of Marina Semyonova), and Leonid Leontyev. He showed his outstanding talent and was considered a future star of ballet. During an exam, he danced with a student, Lidya Ivanova, a performance that was so successful that all the teachers believed them both to

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: and making an earnest attempt." The White Oak Project was formed to create original work for older dancers. In a run ending just short of his 60th birthday in 2007, he appeared in a production of four short plays by Samuel Beckett staged by avant-garde director JoAnne Akalaitis. Baryshnikov was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He has received three Honorary Degrees: on May 11, 2006, from New York University; on September 28, 2007, from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University; and on May

title: Royal Winnipeg Ballet

text: been Evelyn Hart; it also included many other notable dancers including Mikhail Baryshnikov. Born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1956, Hart made her professional debut with the RWB in 1976. In 1980, she was awarded the bronze medal at the World Ballet Concours in Japan, and the gold medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition where she also received the Exceptional Artistic Achievement Award. Both medals were awarded for her performance of Belong pas de deux, created by internationally acclaimed choreographer Norbert Vesak as part of his work "What To Do Till the Messiah Comes". Hart was awarded the Order of

title: Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

text: Harlem, the Dutch National Ballet, the National Ballet of Cuba, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Folklorico of Mexico, and Kirov and the Bolshoi. It was during a 1974 Bolshoi visit that a young Mikhail Baryshnikov, on loan from the Kirov, bolted from the Centre's stage door, down The Esplanade and into a waiting getaway car, aided by later PC Jim Peterson and businessman Tim Stewart. (This door was removed during renovation work ending in 2010.) Like The National Ballet, The Canadian Opera Company also made the Centre its home stage, from as early as 1961 to 2006. Many of

title: Shanghai Ballet Company

text: cooperation and cultural exchange with the artists and companies both abroad and at home. The company not only tours nationwide but also has visited many countries and regions, including the US, UK, Canada, France, Spain, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Finland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Shanghai Ballet Company The Shanghai Ballet Company is the state ballet company for Shanghai. This regional dance troupe organized in 1966 (though they did not settle on the name "Shanghai Ballet" until 1979). They perform a blend of traditional and Western dance styles and performance. The troupe is particularly well

title: Company Business

text: Company Business Company Business is a 1991 spy film, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The film follows the exploits of Sam Boyd (Gene Hackman), a former operative for the CIA who is reactivated to escort Pyotr Ivanovich Grushenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov), a captured KGB mole, to a prisoner exchange in recently reunited Berlin. The exchange is actually a cover for a CIA plot to use drug cartel money to buy back Benjamin Sobel (Bob Sherman), a U-2 pilot who was shot down over the Soviet Union during the 1960s. The exchange goes wrong

title: Carlos Acosta

text: next decade. After five years in Houston, Acosta joined London's Royal Ballet in 1998. With his fabled grace and athleticism, he has earned comparisons to Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev. A writer for London's "Independent" newspaper described Acosta as "a dancer who slashes across space faster than anyone else, who lacerates the air with shapes so clear and sharp they seem to throw off sparks". From 1989 to 1991, Acosta performed throughout the world guesting with many companies including the Compagnia Teatro Nuovo di Torino in Italy, where he danced alongside Luciana Savignano, and the Teatro Teresa Carreño in Venezuela.

title: Apollo (ballet)

text: hands to define instead the genre of neoclassical ballet. The scenario involved the birth of Apollo, his interactions with the three Muses, Calliope (poetry), Polyhymnia (mime) and Terpsichore (dance and song), and his ascent as a god to Mount Parnassus. The original cast included Serge Lifar as Apollo, Alice Nikitina as Terpsichore (alternating with Alexandra Danilova), Lubov Tchernicheva as Calliope, Felia Doubrovska as Polyhymnia and Sophie Orlova as Leto, mother of Apollo. For a revival with Mikhail Baryshnikov as Apollo in 1979, he also omitted Apollo's first variation and re-choreographed the ballet's ending. This revision concluded not with Apollo's ascent

title: Pennsylvania Ballet

text: Prologue Lecture Series, and its outreach and education program, Accent on Dance, which serves over 11,000 children each year. Pennsylvania Ballet II does around 25 shows for the surrounding Philadelphia communities. Other outreach programs include tickets given away to participating schools, studio tours, and school shows. Roy Kaiser has been said to have had a very influential effect on this company. He also participated in other programs such as the New York Choreographic Institute. Matthew Neenan is Pennsylvania Ballet’s first choreographer in residence. He danced for the company from 1994–2007. Pennsylvania Ballet Pennsylvania Ballet is a ballet company in the

title: Mikhail Baryshnikov

text: years living in Latvia, which provided the basis for the rest of his life. "It was there that my exposure to the arts led me to discover my future destiny as a performer. Riga still serves as a place where I find artistic inspiration," Baryshnikov wrote in the letter to the Latvian parliament. Baryshnikov's talent was obvious from his youth, but being 5 ft 5in (165 cm) tall, maybe 5 ft 6in (168 cm), thus, shorter than most dancers, he could not tower over a ballerina "en pointe" and was therefore relegated to secondary parts. More frustrating to him, the

title: Winnipeg

text: a series of chamber orchestral concerts each year. Manitoba Opera is Manitoba's only full-time professional opera company. Among the most notable musical acts associated with Winnipeg are Comeback Kid, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, the Crash Test Dummies, The Guess Who, Neil Young, The Wailin' Jennys, and The Weakerthans. The Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America. It was the first organization to be granted a royal title by Queen Elizabeth II, and has included notable dancers such as Evelyn Hart and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The RWB also runs a full-time classical

title: The Turning Point (1977 film)

text: York, they rent several rooms in Carnegie Hall with Madame Dakharova, a ballet coach. Emilia soon starts a relationship with a Russian playboy in the company, Yuri (Mikhail Baryshnikov). DeeDee runs into the former conductor of the company and has an affair with him, which causes conflict between Emilia and DeeDee. Meanwhile, Emma argues with Arnold, the choreographer, about giving her a better role in his new ballet, which he refuses and leads Emma to suggest Emilia for the role instead. It is also revealed Emma has been seeing a married man, Carter. During rehearsal, Emilia has an argument with

title: Rudolf Nureyev

text: through the full 9 years of dance education. Vladimir Vasiliev, a peer of Nureyev at the Bolshoi and regarded along with Rudolf and Mikhail Baryshnikov as one of the top three ballet dancers, became a pupil of the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1949, graduating in 1958 together with Nureyev. Baryshnikov passed only three years at the Vaganova school of St. Peterburg like Nureyev. Paradoxically, both Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov became masters of perfection in dance. Dance and life was one and the same. Nureyev put it like this: "I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin

title: Ballet company

text: Ballet company A ballet company is a type of dance troupe which performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round basis, except in the United States, where contracts for part of the year (typically thirty or forty weeks) are the norm. A company generally has a home theatre where it stages the majority of its performances, but many companies also tour in their home country or internationally. Ballet companies routinely make a loss at the box office, and depend on external financial

title: Shanghai Ballet Company

text: Shanghai Ballet Company The Shanghai Ballet Company is the state ballet company for Shanghai. This regional dance troupe organized in 1966 (though they did not settle on the name "Shanghai Ballet" until 1979). They perform a blend of traditional and Western dance styles and performance. The troupe is particularly well known for their performances of "The White Haired Girl". The troupe tours internationally. During the 1977 and the 1984 tours, members of the troupe defected, one in the US and one in Canada. The Shanghai Ballet was formally renamed in 1979 at the base of "The White-haired Girl" performing team,