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I've got to +1 all the nostalgia for old Misha. Check out this performance with him and Patrick Bissell in "Don Quixote"...I mean, Bissell is no amateur, but Misha literally blows him out of the water.
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Thanks VR. I saw Misha once with NYCB in the late 70s and at least a dozen times between 1980-1988 with ABT. Watching him dance with Gelsey Kirkland was incredible.
I recently saw a video of him dancing the male variation from Giselle Act 2's pas de deux, and I can only imagine what it was like for that audience. As he went up to do the double front cabrioles in the beginning, the entire audience gasped, and then as some started to clap, he did the second one, and they gasped again, and some started to applaud only because they didn't seem to know what to do next: they sounded stunned. Talking to people who were at that performance, it sounded as if the video barely hinted at the extraordinary occasion.
I've got to +1 all the nostalgia for old Misha. Check out this performance with him and Patrick Bissell in "Don Quixote"...I mean, Bissell is no amateur, but Misha literally blows him out of the water.
Seeing that clip just reminded me of the palpable stage presence and electricity that almost overwhlemed me the first couple of times I played with him--you just can't take your eyes off of him for a second.
Wait, wait, wait---you freakin' played with Baryshnikov?!
Wait, wait, wait---you freakin' played with Baryshnikov?!
He is a bit of fun trivia: What was the name of the Baryshnikov's troupe dancer who played German terrorist in the original DieHard with Bruce Willis?