Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nascimento : 1948-01-27, Riga, Latvia
História
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (born January 27, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then moved to New York to dance with the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director.
Baryshnikov has spearheaded many of his own artistic projects and has been associated in particular with promoting modern dance, premiering dozens of new works, including many of his own. His success as a dramatic actor on stage, cinema and television has helped him become probably the most widely recognized contemporary ballet dancer. In 1977, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe nomination for his work as "Yuri Kopeikine" in the film The Turning Point.
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Rev Run, do grupo RUN DMC, apresenta uma releitura hip-hop do balé “O Quebra-Nozes” ambientada em Nova York. É a noite da festa de Ano-Novo do bairro, e os pais de Maria-Clara estão brigando, o que a deixa muito chateada. Maria-Clara embarca numa aventura mágica para tentar fazer seus pais se reconciliarem. Será que ela conseguirá fazê-los se apaixonar de novo antes da meia-noite?
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Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream.
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Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.
Minister Sorokin (Uncredited)
O agente Jack Ryan é mandado a Moscou para trabalhar como consultor financeiro de um bilionário. O empregador, na verdade, arma para que Ryan leve a culpa por um ataque terrorista ao sistema financeiro dos EUA. O herói precisa, então, correr para limpar seu nome e salvar sua esposa, que foi pega como refém do bilionário.
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A documentary with stars from the original cast.
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Annie Leibovitz nasceu em 1949 e é um dos mais famosos nomes no ramo da fotografia das três últimas décadas. A fotógrafa possui um trabalho variado: retrata o glamour e a riqueza em revistas de moda e comportamento ao mesmo tempo em que capta os horrores praticados nos combates militares. O documentário traz para o cinema um acompanhamento do processo de sua criação artística, como o momento no set de filmagem de “Maria Antonieta”, as experiências da carreira, sua relação com a fama e a vida em família.
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The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Fleming is musically and dramatically radiant as the shy Tatiana, who falls in love with the worldly Onegin, played with devastating charisma by Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Their mesmerizing vocalism and chemistry explode in one of opera’s most heartbreaking final scenes. With Valery Gergiev on the podium conducting Tchaikovsky’s passionate score, this performance is one for the ages.
Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of the country's most gifted 17-year-old performing and visual artists - singled out among thousands of their peers - share a week of dreams as they learn from mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa Williams, Jacques d'Amboise, Michael Tilson Thomas... and from each other. For seven transformative days, the passionate young artists revel in the support, encouragement and attention they have earned.
Narrator (voice)
Today there are more reasons than ever for families to explore and celebrate diversity. Our ever-expanding world is full of differences in abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, family structures, religious faiths, interests and cultures. This documentary introduces your family to children who are not only celebrating how they are unique, but who are also learning from and appreciating the differences in others.
Himself
A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.
Story
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Cesar
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Pyotr Ivanovich Grushenko
CIA e KGB usam uma troca de espiões como fachada para movimentar dois milhões de dólares. Hackman e Baryshnikov servem de bodes espiatórios. Mas os sabichões sacam a jogada, ficam com o dinheiro e arrumam a maior correria. O diretor Nicholas Meyer se atreveu a mandar a Guerra Fria para o espaço em Jornadas das Estrelas e se deu bem. Desta vez faz o mundo dos espiôes ruir igual ao Muro de Berlim.
Tony
O balé 'Gisele' serve de cenário para os encontros e desencontros amorosos entre integrantes de uma companhia de balé. Tony é o coreógrafo e principal bailarino da companhia, mas também é um conquistador inveterado.
Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko
Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov) é um bailarino da União Soviética exilado nos Estados Unidos que é aprisionado pela KGB quando seu avião sofre uma pane e pousa em território soviético. Lá tem contato com um bailarino americano, que desertou do exército na época da Guerra do Vietnã, foi morar em Moscou e está casado com uma russa.
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A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
Basilio
The American Ballet Theatre, performing at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, June 1983, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, present Cervantes' story about the adventures of the Knight of Rueful Countenance.
The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot.
Mikhail Baryshnikov and his guests perform numbers from over a dozen renowned Broadway musicals including Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Can-Can, The King and I, Cabaret, Where's Charley, Hello Dolly, Ain't Misbehavin', Guys and Dolls, The Boyfriend, Kiss Me Kate and A Chorus Line.
Don José
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Bob Hope tours China, takes in the culture and meets up with Big Bird, Crystal Gayle, Peaches and Herb, and others.
Yuri
Quando sua filha se junta a uma companhia de balé, uma ex-dançarina é forçada a confrontar sua decisão há muito tempo de desistir do palco para ter uma família.
Count Albrecht
The ballet tells the story of a peasant girl named Giselle whose ghost, after her premature death, protects her lover from the vengeance of a group of evil female spirits called Wilis
Toy Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated production. The thisspectacular performance is danced by the magnificent team of Baryshnikov, one of the greatest classical dancers of the century, and Gelsey Kirkland, both chowcased at the peak of the their careers, with members of the American Ballet Theatre.
The film is based on true events leading up to the historical 2013 resignation of Benedict XVI. After succeeding John Paul II, and serving as Pope for eight years, Joseph Ratzinger shocked the world by becoming the first Pope to voluntarily resign in over 600 years. In light of moral and ethical upheavals in the Catholic Church, and the unique challenges of the 21st century, Ratzinger's cited reason of declining health raises more questions than it answers.
