Powerful dance performance in the opening scene with Mikhail Baryshnikov in "White Nights," a 1985 movie
The passionate worlds of dance and global politics collide in this explosive thriller. In White Nights, a role that hits close to home, ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov plays Nikolai Rodchenko, a legendary Soviet dancer who has defected to the West--until a cruel twist of fate suddenly traps him back in Mother Russia!
Tap dancer Gregory Hines co-stars as Raymond Greenwood, a cynical U.S. Army deserter ordered by the KGB to make Nikolai's "homecoming" permanent. Nikolai has pierced the Iron Curtain once. Now only Raymond can help him make it again!
Choreography by Twyla Tharp
Directed by Taylor Hackford
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor born on January 27th, 1948, in Riga, Latvia. He is widely regarded, 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, now St. Petersburg, he defected to the West in 1974 while on tour in Canada. He eventually settled in the United States for more opportunities and became a principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre. He later joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer. He collaborated with choreographers such as Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp, and his repertoire includes both classical and contemporary works.
In addition, his success as a dramatic actor on stage, cinema, and television has helped him become probably the most widely recognized contemporary ballet dancer.
He has won numerous awards and honors and is an influential dance and performing art figure.
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