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Baryshnikov performed in his first film role soon after arriving in New York. He portrayed the character Yuri Kopeikine, a famous, womanizing Russian ballet dancer, in the 1977 film The Turning Point, for which he received an Oscar nomination.
Nureyev met Erik Bruhn, the celebrated Danish dancer, after Nureyev defected to the West in 1961.
12 lip 2017 · Rudolf Nureyev, one of the world's greatest ballet dancers, defected to the West in 1961 while on tour with his Soviet ballet company. Impresario Victor Hochhauser organised the tour which...
2 kwi 2014 · Mikhail Baryshnikov is a Russian-American ballet dancer who choreographed several iconic pieces which have made him one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century.
26 kwi 2019 · The defection made international news and thrust the Russian dancer, whose talent drew millions of new fans to the theater, into the public eye for the next 30 years.
Chances and challenges. The daredevil dancer left the Soviet Union for good in 1974. 26-year-old Baryshnikov requested political asylum in Toronto after a performance by the Bolshoi Ballet. He...
26 cze 2019 · Considered one of the world’s greatest ballet dancers of all time, Soviet virtuoso Mikhail Baryshnikov choreographs his own Cold War-era defection from the U.S.S.R. after four years of...
