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You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
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Dancer
Film Actor
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Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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