World-renowned ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov made international headlines when he defected from the Soviet Union in 1974. He has remained largely non-political ever since. Now, Baryshnikov tells ...

American Ballet Theater opens with an all-Tharp program, including “Push Comes to Shove,” the first work she created for the ...

Russian ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov can still turn heads at 77. The dance icon made a rare appearance Wednesday in New York City alongside former Sex and the City co-star Sarah Jessica Parker ...

In a new adaptation of "The Cherry Orchard," at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, the center's namesake is playing an old servant. "I am almost 75, and I am playing 85 years old, you know? Okay ...

Chris Giarmo gives a push to Mikhail Baryshnikov and Tymberly Canale in Anton Chekhov's "Man in a Case" at ArtsEmerson. (T. Charles Erickson) BOSTON — There may be some cosmic, cultural reason why ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov is standing up for Russian artists and athletes who are taking the heat for President Vladimir Putin's devastating attacks on Ukraine. The iconic Soviet-born dancer, 74, who ...

American Ballet Theater opened its season with an all-Twyla Tharp program, featuring her first dance for the company, “Push ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov spoke to chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new show, “Man in a Case,” adapted from two Anton Chekhov short stories. Video shot by Victoria Fleischer and Rebecca ...

“However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That’s what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.” — Joseph Brodsky in an interview with Sven Birkerts for the ...

The set for Mikhail Baryshnikov’s tribute to Joseph Brodsky consists of a structure resembling a ruined old greenhouse—something you might picture surviving in a neglected corner of the Ranyevskaya ...

BUFFALO, NY -- Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Mikhail Baryshnikov and Hell's Kitchen Dance, June 8-10 at 8 p.m. and June 11 at 2 p.m. in the Drama Theatre, located at ...

You would think that being the daughter of two famous dancers, Baryshnikov was put into ballet class at a young age, and you would be right about that. “Yes, my parents put me in ballet; it did not go ...