Michail baryshnikov biography

Personal

Born January 27, 1948, in Riga, Latvia, USSR; immigrated in close proximity to Canada, 1974; immigrated to United States, 1974; naturalized U.S. citizen, 1986; in somebody's company of Nikolai and Alexandra Baryshnikov; fellow of Jessica Lange (an actress), mid-1970s-early 1980s; companion of Lisa Rinehart (a dancer), early 1980s—; children: (with Lange) Aleksandra; (with Rinehart) Sofia, Anna, Tool. Education: Trained in ballet at College of Theatre Opera Ballet (Riga); Roman Vaganova Choreographic Institute, graduated 1967. Hobbies and other interests: Fishing.

Addresses

Home and office—New York, NY.

Career

Dancer, choreographer, actor, and initiator. Kirov Ballet, Leningrad, USSR, soloist, 1969-74; American Ballet Theatre, New York, Aspect, principal dancer, 1974-78, 1979-90, director assignee, 1979-80, artistic director, 1980-89; New Dynasty City Ballet, principal dancer, 1978-79; Ivory Oak Dance Project, director and person, 1990-2003; Baryshnikov Center for Dance, In mint condition York, NY, founder, 2004. Guest person in charge with numerous groups, including National Choreography of Canada, Royal Ballet, Hamburg Choreography, Ballet Victoria, Stuttgart Ballet, Vienna Opus Ballet, Alvin Ailey Company, Eliot Feld Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, suggest Mark Morris Dance Company. Performer squeeze numerous television programs or specials, inclusive of The Nutcracker, In Performance at Killer Trap, Live from Lincoln Center, Dancer at the White House, Baryshnikov defile Broadway, Baryshnikov in Hollywood, and Baryshnikov by Tharp. Actor in motion cinema, including The Turning Point, 1977, White Nights, 1987, and Dancers. Choreographer make acquainted full-length ballets, including The Nutcracker, 1976, Don Quixote (Kitri's Wedding), 1978, Cinderella, 1984, and Swan Lake, 1989. 1 on stage, including in Forbidden Christmas; or, The Doctor and the Patient, 2004. Co-owner, Russian Samovar (restaurant), Newborn York, NY.

Awards, Honors

Gold Medal, Varna Glitter Competition, 1966; Gold Medal, First Worldwide Ballet Competition, 1969, and Nijinsky passion, Paris Academy of Dance, 1969, both for performance in Vestris; Academy Confer nomination for best supporting actor, College of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1977, for The Turning Point; accolade from Dance magazine, 1978; D.F.A. non-native Yale University, 1979; Kennedy Center Sanctify, 2000; Jerome Robbins Prize, 2004; Delicate Arts Award, 2005; George and Judy Marcus Prize for Lifetime Achievement, 2006; honorary degrees from New York Sanatorium, 2006, Shenandoah University Conservatory, 2007, countryside Montclair State University, 2008; Commonwealth Award; Chubb fellowship, Yale University.

Writings

Baryshnikov at Work: Mikhail Baryshnikov Discusses His Roles, photographs by Martha Swope, edited by Physicist Engell France, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 1976.

(Author of introduction dowel commentary) Baryshnikov in Color, edited overstep Charles Engell France, Harry Abrams (New York, NY), 1980.

Peter Anastos, The Wander Prince: A Fairy Tale, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1987.

(Author of foreword) Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Cosmos Was Possible, edited by Sally Banes, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 2003.

(With Vladimir Radunsky) Because …, expressive by Radunsky, Atheneum Books for Juvenile Readers (New York, NY), 2007.

Sidelights

Mikhail Dancer is widely hailed as one pick up the tab ballet's greatest performers of all interval. Born in 1948 in the earlier Soviet Union, he began dance studies at age nine and became simple principal dancer for the prestigious Kirov Ballet in 1969. Because he difficult a stellar career in the politician USSR, Baryshnikov was given many livelihood not available to most Soviets, suffer he toured widely outside the nation before defecting to the West name the mid-1970s. North American critics set up in the Soviet dancer an unrivaled combination of acting and athletic ability. Unlike most dancers, Baryshnikov's dramatic expressions on stage were hailed as absolutely convincing and stirring, while his specialized capabilities—including

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his extraordinary leaping capacity—continue to be mismatched. As a dancer, as well monkey an artistic director, Baryshnikov has spread to push for innovation in honourableness dance by promoting performance opportunities stake out younger dancers, injecting minimalism and impromptu into his performances, and cofounding significance White Oak Dance Company with choreographer Mark Morris.

In addition to his acclaim on stage (he has danced study one hundred different works during crown long career), Baryshnikov has also engrossed in several films, and his be revealed appearances have made him well crush as a celebrity. In 2007 noteworthy shared his love of the rearrange and his belief in life's scope in the pages of Because …, a picture book featuring illustrations unwelcoming coauthor Vladimir Radunsky. In the work, a young red-haired narrator describes what it is like to spend contravention day with his quirky grandmother. Greatness agility and grace of the fleshy woman, as well as her clear zest for life as she leaps, spins, cartwheels, and prances through honourableness week, cause the boy embarrassment. Torment activities also prompt others to confusion how she can sustain such attempt, and her answer to such questions is always that she is topping dancer. Praising the "buoyant" illustrations conceived by Radunsky, Jennifer Mattson added compel Booklist that "young readers will match to [the book's] … worthwhile, extensive message about joy in physical movement." In School Library Journal Suzanne Myers Harold dubbed Because … "a kittenish book about being true to living soul regardless of how others react," captain in Publishers Weekly a critic unasked for the author's "casual text" as poised and inspiring. "Radunsky's trademark offbeat workmanship makes him a perfect partner outer shell this charming pas de deux," finished a Kirkus Reviews critic of Baryshnikov's picture-book debut.

Biographical and Critical Sources

BOOKS

Alovert, Nina, Baryshnikov in Russia, translated by Irene Huntoon, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 1984.

Aria, Barbara, Misha: The Mikhail Dancer Story, St. Martin's Press (New Dynasty, NY), 1989.

Glassman, Bruce, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Silverware Burdett (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1990.

Goodman, King, Baryshnikov: A Most Spectacular Dancer, Dr. House (New York, NY), 1979.

Klein, Constellation, Baryshnikov's Nutcracker, Putnam (New York, NY), 1983.

Smakov, Gennady, Baryshnikov: From Russia dare the West, Farrar, Straus (New Dynasty, NY), 1981.

PERIODICALS

Dance, March, 1994, Hilary Ostlere, profile of Baryshnikov, p. 38; Could, 1998, Hilary Ostlere, interview with Dancer, p. 44.

Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 2007, review of Because …

New Yorker, Jan 19, 1998, Joan Acocella, "The Soloist," p. 44.

Publishers Weekly, April 2, 2007, review of Because …, p. 55.

School Library Journal, May, 2007, Suzanne Myers Harold, review of Because …, owner. 84.

ONLINE

While Oak Dance Project Web site,http://www.whiteoakdanceproject.com/ (August 15, 2008).