Ballet Rhode Island has named Alexandra Cook as its new Operations Director. A Rhode Island native with a distinguished ...

Legendary ballet dancer, choreographer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov, who fled the Soviet Union for freedom in Canada in 1974, has just purchased a Harlem condo for $1.4 million — more than its ...

The breakout star opens up about making “Love Lies Bleeding” with Kristen Stewart, her upcoming lead role, and why she loves playing total oddballs.

Fifty years since he left the Soviet Union, he insists on using his huge fame to bring attention to difficult, esoteric art. The dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov keeps his focus almost ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov on "The Orchard" 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.

When Baryshnikov put a million of his own dollars toward establishing the Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2005, Kendall called and said, "I'm matching it." "That's a mensch," says the dancer.

Baryshnikov’s seven-member company rarely spends much time at White Oak anymore, although he remains a frequent visitor. A recent rehearsal, in late January and early February, is the longest ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov calls the experience of working on “The Old Woman” with artist-director Robert Wilson one of the most complicated and challenging of his career. Baryshnikov, who has ...

Like Baryshnikov, other dancers have invented steps that expanded the language of ballet (Irek Mukhamedov of the Bolshoi, for example). Others, too, have left classicism for indelible achievements ...

As the audience for “Brodsky/Baryshnikov” enters the black-box, 238-seat Jerome Robbins Theater at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, it finds the stage set with what in Kristine Jurjane’s ...

Baryshnikov was a ballet superstar for 15 years but has spent nearly the last 15 in modern dance -- mostly with his White Oak chamber group -- and now believes that “very few people remember me ...

Baryshnikov`s designer for the new ”Swan Lake” is Pier Luigi Samaritani, whose work includes several assignments for Lyric Opera of Chicago and the opulent, full-length ”La Bayadere” for ABT.