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Cody talking about the unrest in the Kilkenny camp. Donal Lenihan in shorts that seemed to have been discarded by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Two sure tips for Cheltenham. Just another night at the Cork Opera House. Your columnist took himself along to the...
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A revised version had a successful run in Las Vegas. The innovative, much-celebrated Tharp had choreographed Sinatra songs before, most famously for ballet superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov in the 1980s. For this project, she fashioned a narrative work...
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Russian-born Mikhail Baryshnikov (left) is the recipient of the Vilcek Prize for the Arts for his body of distinguished work and contributions to the field of dance. Michel Kouakou (right), a dancer and choreographer from the Ivory Coast, has been... View Photo »
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Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. I only try to dance better than myself.
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Wednesday. The performances consist of “Nine Sinatra Songs,” combining the Rat Packer’s tracks with sensual ballroom dancing; “Surfer at the River Styx,” featuring six dancers and an original score by Donald Knaack; and “Push Comes to Shove,” Tharp’s...
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Mikhail Baryshnikov has been doing something besides dancing for the last 35 years: He's been taking photographs. And he will be showing about 27 of these photos in an exhibit called "Dance This Way" at the Gary Nader Arts Center in Wynwood, which opens...
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Renowned stage performer Mikhail Baryshnikov attends a news conference at the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre in Tel Aviv November 13, 2011. Baryshnikov leads an all-Russian cast in the play "In Paris" over nine performances at the Suzanne... View Photo »
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The dancer, choreographer and actor was given $100,000 as a lifetime achievement award. The prize is given annually in the US to immigrants who have made an outstanding long-lasting contribution to American culture and science. The official Vilcek...
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Vilcek Foundation Names 2012 Immigrant Prize Recipients in the Arts - Spotlight on Dance
Street Insider15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to name the 2012 winners of its Vilcek Prizes honoring the contributions of foreign-born artists and scientists in the United States. The Vilcek Prize for the Arts, this year awarded...
About Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников) (born January 27, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he... Full Article
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Renowned stage performer Mikhail Baryshnikov attends a news conference at the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre in Tel Aviv November 13, 2011. Baryshnikov leads an all-Russian cast in the play "In Paris" over nine performances at the Suzanne Dellal Centre this month.
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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 04: Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov attends the 2011 Casita Maria Fiesta!
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: Mikhail Baryshnikov attends the 20th annual Jazz Loft Party at Hudson Studios on October 29, 2011 in New York City.
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Russian-born US dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov performs on stage during a rehearsal of 'In Paris' adapted from the short story by Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, directed by Dmitry Krymov, on September 7, 2011 at the Chaillot national theatre in Paris. The play, which uses elements of mime,...
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In this photo taken Wednesday June 1, 2011, a ballet student rehearses at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Teatro Colon, which opened in 1908, is considered one of the world's best acoustic halls. The 2,478-seat, gold-trimmed theater has carried the vibrato of opera...
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In this photo taken Monday, May 23, 2011, people attend Mozart's The Magic Flute opera at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Teatro Colon, which opened in 1908, is considered one of the world's best acoustic halls. The 2,478-seat, gold-trimmed theater has carried the...
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In this photo taken Wednesday May 11, 2011, a member of the Teatro Colon Philharmonic Orchestra attends rehearsal in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Teatro Colon, which opened in 1908, is considered one of the world's best acoustic halls. The 2,478-seat, gold-trimmed theater has carried...
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Sascha Radetsky, ballet dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, seen during a dress rehearsal in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The American Ballet Theatre has returned to Moscow for the first time since the 1960s and since the defection of Mikhail...
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Ballet dancers, with Sascha Radetsky in center, of the American Ballet Theatre perform in one-act ballets during a dress rehearsal in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The American Ballet Theatre has returned to Moscow for the first time since the 1960s...
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by Sotheby's in New York shows the painting "View of St. Petersburg" by Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin, which is to be sold at Sotheby's on April 12, 2011, as part of the auction house's Russian art sale, where it is expected to fetch $300,000 to...
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Renowned stage performer Mikhail Baryshnikov attends a news conference at the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre in Tel Aviv November 13, 2011. Baryshnikov leads an all-Russian cast in the play "In Paris" over nine performances at the Suzanne Dellal Centre this month.
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