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5 days ago · June 28, 2024. On the night of June 29, 1974, after a performance with a touring Bolshoi Ballet troupe in downtown Toronto, Mikhail Baryshnikov made his way out a stage door, past a throng of fans ...
4 days ago · Mikhail Baryshnikov on July 10, 1974, at the St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto leading up to his his performance in La Sylphide with the National Ballet of Canada. Erik Christensen/The Globe and Mail
3 days ago · Mikhail Baryshnikov at the arts center that bears his name, in Manhattan, June 24, 2024. The pre-eminent male dancer of the 1970s and ’80s discusses that day 50 years ago when he defected from the Soviet Union, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today.
5 days ago · On the night of June 29, 1974, after a performance with a touring Bolshoi Ballet troupe in downtown Toronto, Mikhail Baryshnikov made his way out a stage door, past a throng of fans and began to run.
5 days ago · Mikhail Baryshnikov, 26 and already hailed as one of the greatest ballet dancers of his generation, made his dash to freedom and defected from the Soviet Union. “There was a light rain and it ...
4 days ago · Mikhail Baryshnikov: Life, Art and Soviet Defection. June 29, 1974. Like a scene from a movie, a ballet star lives out scenes from an action movie. Still, in his stage clothes, Mikhail Baryshnikov left the theater and began to run. A car was waiting for him to speed off to the Embassy where he would come to ask for political asylum.
5 days ago · Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind by Javier C. Hernández. By Javier C. Hernández. Fifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today. Published: June 28, 2024 at 08:30PM.
