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...Mikhail Baryshnikov dances Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove...
...feature film in preproduction, with the team of Olympic judges as the venture's casting directors. For the role of leading man, the producers have asked for someone the world can call a champion. But whom to choose? Do they opt for a sinewy 20-year-old talent, all Baryshnikov grace and DiCaprio innocence? Or do they go with a stockily built he-man, a comparative veteran of 25, whose brash moves and manner suggest a cross between Michael Flatley and Steven Seagal...
...Lutz. His landing was two-footed, but if the applause meter was any indication, he clearly won the testosterone title. Nevertheless, the judges ranked Eldredge higher, giving him his fifth National title. Both men will travel to Nagano. They will face Russia's Ilia Kulik, justly hailed as a Baryshnikov on ice, and Canada's Elvis Stojko, who may add a second quad jump to his long program at Nagano...
When Mikhail Baryshnikov premieres his newest work this month in New York City, he'll be dancing to the beat of his own heart. A device modified by artist Christopher Janney will capture electrical impulses passing between Baryshnikov's head, heart and feet and use them to regulate musical accompaniment, making the dancer's body the conductor. "My work is like a visual jazz," says Janney. Amplifying nature's rhythms is Janney's specialty. He built what may be the largest piece of interactive public art ever--a 180-ft.-high mosaic of colored glass--in the Miami airport. What...
...mother. She brought her own style to the stiff Windsor charm. In 1985 she and Charles visited the U.S. for the first time together. "At a White House dinner," says J. CARTER BROWN, who was director of the National Gallery of Art, "she was seated next to Mikhail Baryshnikov. It was customary to take the menu cards that were at each seat and pass them around to everyone at the table to autograph. When Baryshnikov got the set, he got shy about passing it on to her to autograph. So she teased him and said, 'Why? What's wrong...