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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Ballet Dancer
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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