Mikhail Baryshnikov

A hip-hop reimagining of The Nutcracker, featuring well known dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tiler Peck, KidaTheGreat, and the Jabbawockeez. (disneyplus.com)

PLACE is a thirty minute dance film, especially created for Mikhail Baryshnikov & Ana Laguna, with choreography by Mats Ek.

A modern color remake of the silent masterpiece; the story is taken up to contemporary New York, where a somnambulist is haunting a working couple.

Rogue CIA agent Sam Boyd is called back by "the Company" to do some work. Namely a hostage trade of jailed Soviet spy Pyiotr Grushenko for an American agent the Soviets had taken. In the newly united Germany the trade goes bad and Grushenko and Boyd find themselves on the run from both the KGB and the CIA as they unravel an International espionage plot set at the end of the Soviet era. (imdb)

A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee. (imdb)

The history of dance depicted on film. (imdb)

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again, but he wishes to escape, but can he trust the American? (imdb)

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Patricia McBride perform selections of ballet at the White House with President Jimmy Carter in attendance. Features choreography partly coordinated by Jerome Robbins.

Hoffmann's story begins on Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum house. Marie, twelve years old, and her brother Fritz, eight, sit outside the parlor speculating about what kind of present their godfather Drosselmeyer, who is a clockmaker and inventor, has made for them. They are at last allowed into the parlor, where they receive many splendid gifts, including Drosselmeyer's, which turns out to be a clockwork castle with mechanical people moving about inside it. (Wikipedia)

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family. (imdb)

Mikhail Baryshnikov's debut on American television.

Great Performances is a television anthology series dedicated to the performing arts; the banner has been used to televise theatrical performances such as plays, musicals, opera, ballet, concerts, as well as occasional documentaries. "Dance in America" is a sub-series which collects musical episodes. (Wikipedia)