Baryshnikov: From Russia to the West
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374109087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars product description matched the book perfectly. Thank you!!. For Any Baryshnikov Fan, Baryshnikov From Russia to the West I am reading it now and so far I have loved it. It gives you a look inside Baryshnikov's life before he defected to the West and how the ballet in Russia was ran. It also gives you pictures of him when he was a boy growing and a picture of his mother who he loved very much. One of my favorite stastements is on page 13, made by his father when someone showed him the book "Baryshni. Baryshinikov: From Russia to the West This was a badly written form list of performances minus any person thought or feeling on the dance or coming to America. Very dry reading. His coworker Elena Tchernichova got introduced short and cheap as a divorced woman who had a controversial review. Out of respect to her and a great read, I highly recommend her book, Dancing on Water. She shares more of what it was like to d
He has since deployed all facets of his remarkable skill with the intensity of a Renaissance man. Dust jacket notes: "Mikhail Baryshnikov is generally considered the greatest classical ballet dancer since Nijinsky. It took only one performance (July 27, 1974) at New York's American Ballet Theatre for Baryshnikov to become an unprecedented sensation in the American dance world. Yet until now the course of his artistic development has been analyzed only sporadically. As a friend of Baryshnikov since 1965, and as a dance critic both in Russia and in the United States, Gennady Smakov is eminently qualified to fill this gap. Desperate for a change from this stale artistic routine - even after attaining starring roles in the classical ballets he loved, and the most coveted awards, and a decent a