To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you’re thinking about what you’re doing in life-in my case, dancing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little – my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
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. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I’m dancing or not. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people’s participation and young faces in the audience. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
