World-renowned ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov made international headlines when he defected from the Soviet Union in 1974. He has remained largely non-political ever since. Now, Baryshnikov tells ...

Chris Giarmo gives a push to Mikhail Baryshnikov and Tymberly Canale in Anton Chekhov's "Man in a Case" at ArtsEmerson. (T. Charles Erickson) BOSTON — There may be some cosmic, cultural reason why ...

Anna Baryshnikov’s Lavinia Dickinson is not your typical American Romantic woman. To prepare for the part of Emily Dickinson’s younger sister in the new Apple TV+ series “Dickinson,” the actress did ...

Even the greatest dancer of his generation can't wriggle out of this one right away. With his legs constrained by a long gauze skirt and his wrists bound together by a terry-cloth band, Mikhail ...

Now only is Mikhail Baryshnikov one of the leading dancers of the 20th century, he is also a celebrated actor! Born in Riga, Latvia, on January 27, 1948, Mikhail began dazzling audiences with his ...

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Russian ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov can still turn heads at 77. The dance icon made a rare appearance Wednesday in New York City alongside former Sex and the City co-star Sarah Jessica Parker ...

“A lot of people lost their sanity because of art,” says Mikhail Baryshnikov, sounding decidedly sane during a phone interview. “Art is divine madness. You have to be totally committed. A lot of ...

“However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That’s what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.” — Joseph Brodsky in an interview with Sven Birkerts for the ...

Reporting from New York — It is early afternoon at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. On the fourth floor, a woman in a black leotard dances in a large studio with high ceilings and great views of the ...

NEW YORK — Mikhail Baryshnikov’s earliest experience in the theater began when he was a child of just 4 or 5 in present-day Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union. His mother, a Russian speaker ...