Word: baryshnikov
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...ambles in to the rinky-tink beat of Joseph Lamb's rag, Bohemia, a little guy in a shiny satin shirt and crushed-velvet breeches. Mikhail Baryshnikov, loose of limb with plenty of shoulder action, adjusts his bowler hat. From the wings a woman's leg appears, and then the rest of Marianna Tcherkassky. The two link up, meet Martine van Hamel, and ease downstage in a vaudeville shuffle. Stop. Resume action, triple speed...
Even the swift, strong Baryshnikov at first felt pushed by the pace of Tharp's choreography. "Misha learned something about dancing fast," says Tharp...
...strong permanent roster of principals and its growing array of dazzling guest artists, American Ballet Theater can put together superstar casts that no company in the world can match. Consider last week's second world premiere, John Neumeier's Hamlet Connotations. Hamlet was played by Mikhail Baryshnikov, who with every performance is proving himself not only a wonderful classical dancer but also a superb actor. Ophelia was his frequent partner, the elfin Gelsey Kirkland. Gertrude was danced by Marcia Haydee, prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet, who is appearing for the first time with A.B.T. this season. Denmark...
...dance world has been reverberating for some time with tales of unrest and unhappiness at American Ballet Theater, the nation's premier dance company. American members of A.B.T. felt upstaged and upset by the arrival of Soviet Defectors Natalia Makarova (in 1970) and Mikhail Baryshnikov (in 1974). This fall A.B.T. recruited three more foreign superstars: Stuttgart Ballet's Marcia Haydée and two Italian artists, Carla Fracci and Paolo Bortoluzzi. Thus nobody quite believed it last week when, on the eve of the opening of the company's six-week Manhattan season, A.B.T.'s American...
Later in the program he was onstage alone in Vestris, a ballet created for him by Leningrad's Leonid Jacobson in 1969. The subject of this seven-minute solo is Auguste Vestris, a famous 18th century dancer and mime. In a powdered wig and white satin tunic, Baryshnikov went through a kaleidoscope of quicksilver impressions - an old man dancing a minuet, a woman praying, a girl flirting. It was funny. It was sad. Then it was funny again. It was acting of the highest order...