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...stables -- could be described as either utopian or feudal. Through the years Gilman has nurtured the wildlife program, which includes 26 species of mammals and 30 varieties of birds, like a latter-day Sun King. Gilman has also been an enthusiastic patron of dance, and when his friend Mikhail Baryshnikov was looking for a good spot to prepare a tour of new works by his friend, choreographer Mark Morris, Gilman decided to pitch in. Within three weeks he had an air-conditioned studio flung up, with a nice springy floor and sophisticated lighting -- for dancers, Shangri...
...Baryshnikov-Morris tour, scheduled for 17 U.S. cities in October and November, would seem about as likely a partnership as the owl and the pussycat. Baryshnikov, 42, the pre-eminent male dancer of the 1970s and '80s, defined the great classical ballet roles. Morris, 34, is a brilliant and somewhat unruly postmodern choreographer. Baryshnikov dances "up," every graceful move a dismissal of gravity. Morris, a marvelous performer as well, is blunt and emphatic. Where the one leaps high, the other stamps down, like the folk dancer he was as a teenager...
After resigning as artistic director of American Ballet Theater a year ago, Baryshnikov thought of quitting dancing too. But despite chronic knee problems, he admits, "it's neither easy nor pleasant to leave the stage. I never thought I'd spend my last years as a modern dancer, but it's important now to work with someone I admire." He had danced Morris' work earlier and spotted him as someone who saw dance the way he did, musically. "Mark decodes a composer's thought," Baryshnikov says. "He uses dance like an extra instrument." As for Morris, he seized on "Misha...
Beside the effervescent Morris, Baryshnikov is rather severe, intently examining the image in the mirror when he is dancing, contemplating Morris with a fixed eye when he isn't. His gaze looks critical, but that's not the case. "I try to figure out the way he works and anticipate him," Baryshnikov says cheerfully. "But I never...
...executive vice president. "My two dogs come to work with me." There will also be some indulgences at the film center. One will be the TriBeCa Bar and Grill, a restaurant that De Niro is opening with financial investments from such pals as Sean Penn, Bill Murray and Mikhail Baryshnikov. De Niro's new Hollywood-on-the-Hudson may be an upstart, but it will not suffer for lack of connections...