Word: baryshnikov
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...show is based. There's no connection. None. So when Carrie needed a love interest for the show's final season, someone who could make fans forget about her enigmatic ex Mr. Big, it was just by chance that HBO tapped bedroom-eyed ballet dancer and international superhunk MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV. Never mind that Bushnell is married to Charles Askegard, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. It was all sheer coincidence. Or maybe it was those nice dancer's legs...
Once a controversial young troublemaker in the New York dance scene, Morris has become an icon of the dance world, working with—and celebrated by—Yo-Yo Ma ’76, George Ballanchine and Mikhail Baryshnikov. While admitting the necessity of defining dance as an art in and of itself, he defended his reputation as a dancer wholeheartedly devoted to music, by contrast to other modern choreographers who have rejected the “tyranny of music...
...example of perfect footwork. The Brazilian No. 10 positioned himself at the edge of the 18-yard box for a looping cross from Ronaldinho on the right. His back to goal, Rivaldo received the ball on his chest, let it drop, trapped it with his right foot, swiveled like Baryshnikov and smacked it with his left, past a diving goalkeeper. It was a feat of pure Brazilian magic. Honorable Mention: Senegalese Papa Bouba Diop's scrambling game-winner against France in the opening match...
...high end, Mikhail Baryshnikov hailed him as the dancer of the century, and Jerome Robbins created a ballet in tribute to Astaire's "I'm Old Fashioned" dance with Rita Hayworth. Starchy Teutonic theorist Siegfried Kracauer praised him for injecting realism in Hollywood films by "dancing over table tops and down garden paths into the real world." Kracauer was totally wrong - Astaire didn't bring realism but rather a nonchalant nobility to movies - but it's touching that the nutty professor bent his theory to accommodate a tap dancer he loved...
...Acrobatic tap dancer who with his older brother helped break the color barrier in Hollywood musicals... Mikhail Baryshnikov called them 'the most amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life--ever...