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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

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Business

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance

Interest

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

First