A thorny, dramatic life path awaits a creative, extraordinary personality. The fate of ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov fits perfectly into the outline of the biographical plot.
Mikhail Baryshnikov is a great ballet dancer and choreographer born in Riga on January 27, 1948. His father, an officer in the Soviet army, was a tough and strict man. Mikhail studied until the age of 12 in a regular high school, enrolled in a ballet school at the age of 10, and then expressed a desire to study at a choreographic school. At age 12, Mikhail lost his mother, who committed suicide, his father married. It was hard for the boy to live with his father’s new family. A few years later, Mikhail moved to Leningrad and ceased to communicate with his father.
Baryshnikov was small in stature, and teachers at the school recommended that he grow up to solo on stage. The young man was able to grow 4 cm, performing a complex set of exercises. In 1964, having arrived in Leningrad with the troupe of the Latvian National Opera, he entered the Leningrad Choreographic School.
Career and creativity
Since 1967, a school graduate was admitted to the S.M. Opera and Ballet Theater Kirov. He quickly began to solo, having a unique talent, virtuoso performance. Mikhail worked at the Mariinka for 7 years. The title of People's Artist of the RSFSR was received by him in 1973.
Baryshnikov went on tour abroad for the first time with a theater in London in 1970.
In 1974, while in Toronto, he seeks political asylum and remains in America. In the same year he entered the troupe of American ballet, where he immediately became the premiere. Already in July, makes his debut on stage in the ballet "Giselle". The audience chokes with delight. Over the next 4 years, Mikhail has soloed in a variety of ballet productions, performs the main roles and choreographed in The Nutcracker and Don Quixote.
In 1978, the famous artist moved to the theater "New York City Ball." In 1980-1989, he runs the American Ballet Theater. Since 1990, together with Mark Morris, has been organizing the White Oak project in Florida. Since 2005, opens its own art center. In addition to ballet, he is engaged in photography, opens the restaurant "Russian Samovar", has its own production of ballet clothes, its own brand of perfumes.
Baryshnikov also acts in films. From 1974 to 2002 on his account six paintings. In 1977, he even won an Oscar. A few more films were shot in 2004 - 2014.
