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Mikhail Baryshnikov , 和Nureyev一樣，來自俄國的著名舞蹈家， 上個世紀70年代在西方尋求政治避難
1948年1月28日出生於拉脫維亞的Riga, 父母都是俄國人，父親工程師，母親是裁縫,在第二個錄像中他說到他的母親酷愛音樂和藝術，是個;歌劇迷， 音樂迷， 戲劇迷，芭蕾舞迷，一天他母親把帶到舞台前，帷幕打開，音樂響起，他看到的是芭蕾舞，從此與芭蕾結緣一生， 12歲那年Mikhail Baryshnikov 被他母親送去芭蕾學校學芭蕾，悲哀的是他的母親同年自殺了。
遇到芭蕾恩師Pushkin，影響了他後來對藝術的態度： 不僅熱愛俄羅斯文化藝術，而且對藝術永遠保持好奇和探索。
他的舞姿非常優美帥氣，而且後來還是一位出色的電影演員，Mikhail Baryshnikov 被稱譽為是一位完美的舞蹈家， 他卻謙虛地說：完美隻是理論上的， 或者說完美是一個神話， 人不可能完美，但可以每天在日常生活裏力求做更好，並做些有意義的事， 他說 他的身體就是樂器，他是一名人類公民Citizen of Humanity，人道公民。
確實，這40多年Mikhail Baryshnikov 做的也是一個人道公民做的，保護人類遺產，傳播藝術，人道與和平。
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Mikhail Baryshnikov: Perfection Is A Theory
You’d think the greatest dancer in history would be a perfectionist.
Heralded by longtime New York Times critic Clive Barnes as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen,” Mikhail Baryshnikov led the Kirov Ballet until 1974 when he defected to join the world’s premier dance companies and study under masters George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins.
He has won the National Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, and multiple Emmys. But the 64-year-old Latvian expat waffles if you ask him about being perfect.
“Perfection is a theory,” he says. He’s sitting in the back of an art gallery in the Flatiron District, there to host the opening of his new photo series Dance This Way and celebrate the debut of a video he made with the denim brand Citizens of Humanity. “It’s a kind of astronomical detachment—it’s infinity.”
The man looks trim and strong enough to suggest otherwise. Since leaving his post as artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre in 1989 he has distinguished himself in dozens of creative projects and film and TV work (the most notable for casual fans: Sex And The City). In 2005 he opened the Baryshnikov Arts Center as a way to cultivate local and international artists.
It’s a commitment that explains why Citizens founder Jerome Dahan choose Baryshnikov as the first subject of his yearlong video series—Baryshnikov is as devoted to dance as Dahan is to denim. “I am very passionate about this,” says Dahan, who also founded Seven jeans. “I design for tomorrow.”
The series will feature 20 artists and creators discussing what drives them and how their work contributes to experiencing humanity. New subjects and videos will be released monthly accompanied by a limited edition t-shirt from each contributor.
Baryshnikov, for one, says dance is rightly placed at the forefront of such an effort. He alternately called it “divinity,” the “sport of the gods,” an “activity of the human spirit.”
Which is exactly why it doesn’t serve dancers well to judge themselves obsessively against an unattainable concept, he adds. Art is a process toward self-betterment. Thinking otherwise will only make you crazy.
“Art when your heart is burning but your mind is cool–that is the best combination,” Baryshnikov says. “When they are both burning, it goes nowhere.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahelliott/2012/10/02/mikhail-baryshnikov-perfection-is-a-theory/
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