Maëla

Mikhail Baryshnikov is the most famous ballet’s dancer. He is known all over the world. Besides teaching ballet, he did some things on the TV like the serie ”Sex in the city” and some movies. He was born in 1948, just after the
Second World’s War in the
Soviet Union, and at the age of fifteen he started dancing and joined the
Leningrad’s Kirov Company. He was permitted to join it because of his extraordinary leg-muscle strength. During the
Kirov’s Canadian tour in 1974, Baryshnikov disappeared for several days, and when he resurfaced, he was in the
United States and he asked for political asylum.  He did that because of his ideology and to go far socially and financially. After that he joined the American Ballet where he was Artistic Director for ten years. Despite that he joined the New York City Ballet (with George Balanchine), and finally formed his own company in 1990 with Mark Morris.                                                    Mikhail Baryshnikov has danced more than 100 different works during his career. In addition to his dancing, he has starred in five films, earning an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Turning Point (1977). Otherwise he did the White Nights in 1985, in which he played a ballet star who’d defected from the
Soviet Union only to be kidnapped back into his homeland. He has performed numerous times on television, including three Emmy award-winning specials. In 1989, he appeared on Broadway in Metamorphosis, earning a Tony nomination and a Drama Critics Award.  He is in 1997 the recipient of a New York Dance and Performance Award and received both the Kennedy
Center honor and the National Medal of Arts in 2000. His book, Black and White, will be published in May 2002. I wrote about him because I think dance is all and that he is one of the biggest dancers in the world.

Jenna Rink is a thirteen year old girl that has some problems with her teenager’s life. The only thing she wants is to become one of the school cool girls and to be thirty, successful and have a boyfriend. Her only friend is her childhood’s best friend, Matt, a chubby boy that likes her a lot and would do anything for her. She is in love with the most handsome and popular boy of her school. A mean and popular girl, named Lucy that studies with her discovered and tries to make fun of her with a horrible plan. She makes Jenna make a party and says to her that the boy of her dreams will be there. Jenna is stupefied and happy. She prepares everything to the party and just waits. Matt arrives before everybody and gives her the house of her dreams, a house that he spend three months doing, with some whishing dust to carry out all of her dreams. The popular girls arrived and the boys too. Matt put some music, but the popular girls laugh of him. They decide to play seventh haven and put Jenna in the cupboard. Lucy says that the handsome boy is coming to kiss her. However everybody leaves and she stays there waiting. Matt come to see what’s going on and she blames him for this humiliation. Sitting alone in there, she whishes to be thirty, successful and date. Thanks to the whishing dust her dreams become true. She wakes up the next morning and discoverer that she grow up, she has a knockout body, a dream apartment, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstars friends. Although her life seems to be so perfect, she becomes disappointed with herself, since she discovered that she is an awful colleague in her work, has no friends and no contact with her parents and her best friend is going to marry another woman. She tries to be thirteen again and rebuilt her life.                                                                                                                                       I loved this movie, it’s very cute because you learn that you must enjoy everything of your life and not miss a moment. You have to stay with the ones you love, never forget them and love with yourself. Being honest and kind with other people you’ll be loved and have friends. Never try to be someone else, just be yourself.