Word: baryshnikov
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Baryshnikov's superb execution of movement communicates to us through our emotions. It is his combination of antitheses-vulnerability, strength; youth, control; solo work, partnering; serenity, volatility-that makes him this generation's most gifted dancer...
...dinner given by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his wife, the Shah and his Empress, along with 800 personal guests, attended a performance of the American Ballet Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Among the dancers onstage was ballet's newest superstar, Mikhail Baryshnikov (TIME...
...attempts to reassemble his life, he has at least found comforting surrogate parents in the U.S. They are Mrs. Saunder and Howard Oilman, board chairman of the Oilman Paper Co. A major patron of music and dance, Oilman has lent Baryshnikov a New York penthouse rent-free. Saunder and Oilman have introduced him to musicians like Cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch and Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Baryshnikov has plunged eagerly into an investigation of American culture. He spends his spare time at plays, operas and especially movies. He is a considerable student of television, whether afternoon cartoons or old movies on the late...
...company's veterans, have been working toward for years. "Americans have nothing to sell but their dancing," says Cynthia Gregory, 28. "I just feel helpless. No matter how well we dance, we never get that kind of recognition." Ted Kivitt, 32, who has shared a dressing room with Baryshnikov at Manhattan's primitive City Center, says: "The timing has been bad for me. It was my time for getting recognition. It is like taking ten giant steps backward." Adds Deborah Dobson, 24: "We are all starting to get a little inhibited. When you are out there onstage...
...Baryshnikov has tried to make friends in the company by passing on as much as he can of his peerless training to beginning performers, by teaching his steps to young stars like Fernando Bujones, 20, or simply by breaking rehearsal tension with a rendition of show tunes on the grand piano...