American - Dancer | January 27, 1948 -
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
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Running a company is pretty demanding.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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I am teaching more. That is what I do best.
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I have made mistakes.
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I don't want to do anything Freudian.
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I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
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I - you know, I'm not an actor.
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