Mikhail Baryshnikov Tickets

> > I just saw Mikhail Baryshnikov recently night in Banff. He was dancer and director of the White Oak Dance Project ( New York, 1990-2002), and now has a huge school in NYC, The Baryshnikov Art Center, where many get a hand up to develop their talents. The poor man sat - painfully I am sure - through a 2-hour arm-chair interview on stage, much of which I found trite and irrelevant to his talent as an extraordinary dancer whose duende went far beyond the incredible body in the tight leotards, the legendary love-affairs and tragic demise of his beloved and revered mother, which the interviewer harped upon, and more, went even beyond the boundaries of pure dance to the highest realm of spirituality! * I am so annoyed at the interviewer, Ian Brown, a Toronto "Globe and Mail" journalist, for bringing the man down from his divine rank to the common mortal level that I wish to find time write to him and, politely, berate him on his soap-opera interview of one of the world's most unique and gifted artists alive! I think the interviewer should have had dance experience of one form or another.... even Flamenco! Oh yes, my dear editora Rose, I would I have had fun with that interview! I feel like writing to Mr. B as though I knew him myself, and taking it on myself to apologize for the unremarkable ( aka boring ) tenor of much of the too-long interview! Had he even stood up and moved his arms in a couple of circles, it would have alleviated the drab mundaneness of the conversation forced upon him! I felt ashamed at the lack of depth and above all, sensitivity on the part of the interviewer. Margot Fonteyn encapsulated the essence of the man in this sentence in her book "The Magic of Dance": "..... his dancing is shaded by a haunting, mysterious melancholy that seems to lie behind the joy, setting him apart like a lone poet who sees beyond the vision of other men." This writer, also a dancer for many years in Europe, feels embarrassed that he had to be put through an interview missing the most important essence of the humble yet brilliant dancer that he was.