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.