Word: misha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mohring said she is especially excited about the alumni dinner this Saturday, hosted by founder John Misha Petkevich '71-73, at which the co-chairs will be meeting past skaters and coaches who have come to Cambridge for the anniversary performance...
...what young hotshot is going to fill his ballet slippers? A.B.T.'s Ethan Stiefel debuted in the Baryshnikov role of Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove in New York City last week, giving a performance that had the stylistic curiosity, the eye-grabbing virtuosity--everything, in fact, but Misha's sly wit. There will never, ever be another Baryshnikov, but Stiefel, 26, is well on his way to becoming the great American male ballet dancer of his generation...
Nikolai Dobrynin's Misha is a man of a hundred smiling faces and several dozen frowns. His face is an open book, mirroring exactly Misha's emotions. One character comments on Misha's unwavering optimism by noting that his America is "in the nuthouse." But as Misha loses his innocence, his face becomes steadily grimmer. Dobrynin's virtuoso performance cements the film. The entire cast, in fact, merits special praise for their acting. Spotty subtitles cause the full meaning of the Russian dialogue to be lost on English speakers, but the marvelous performances transcend language...
Sergei Ursulyak is a visually daring director, and his film features many arresting sequences. Misha meets a stunning mystery woman on his first night in Moscow and later encounters her again alone on the subway. Too dejected to speak, he stays in the car. The camera moves away with the car, filming the solitary woman until blackness engulfs...
...beginning of the film contains another visual treat: a sly reference to Saturday Night Fever. As Misha steps off the train in Moscow clad in beige plaid and an orange scraf, he participates in a crazed dance sequence before Ursulyak rapidly cuts to a more somberly dressed Misha, stripped of his fantasies, standing in a drizzle outside the train station. At the end of the film, Misha's brightly colored Moscow fades into gray...