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 ...

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 ...

Photo by E and Roso, styled by Caroline Grosso. Produced by Biel Parklee. Hair by Jillian Halouska for R+Co at Starworks Artists, Makeup by Gianpaolo Ceciliato for Giorgio Armani Beauty. Fashion ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Joseph Brodsky, in a Song of Exiled Russians The dancer discusses the one-man show “Brodsky/Baryshnikov,” which layers poems by his late friend, the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky ...

A curious exhilaration turns contagious when Willem Dafoe trips the light fantastic with Mikhail Baryshnikov in “The Old Woman,” and that’s only part of the artfully eccentric delights in the Robert ...

If you want to watch Mikhail Baryshnikov dance, don't go see him perform in "Man in a Case" in Hartford. “It’s not a dance show,” Baryshnikov said during a recent phone interview in Hartford. “Do not ...

For Mikhail Baryshnikov, “Brodsky/Baryshnikov” is a celebration of old friend Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet. The one-man show, which Baryshnikov performs Jan. 17-21 at the ...

NEW YORK — Mikhail Baryshnikov’s earliest experience in the theater began when he was a child of just 4 or 5 in present-day Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union. His mother, a Russian speaker ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — If anyone were born to dance it is Shura Baryshnikov, daughter of ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov and Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange. Shura Baryshnikov spent part of her ...