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When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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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.
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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
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Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
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A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
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A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
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The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
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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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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
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Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
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Nobody is born a dancer.
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
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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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