Was I a romeo? I should be so lucky What does it mean to be the world's most famous ballet dancer? It hurts all over, says Mikhail Baryshnikov, as he prepares to leap back onto the London stage next week

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: June 2, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

IAM wandering the fourth floor of an unprepossessing warehouse on West 61st Street, New York, looking for the most famous ballet dancer in the world. No luck in this room, or the next. Down a corridor five girls - and they hardly look older or more substantial than girls - are lying wiltingly on the floor drinking mineral water. "You looking for Misha?" one of these nymphs asks. "Know what? You best go back out and ..." Following her instructions gets me to Mikhail Baryshnikov's office, a bare room with a desk overlooking an open-air car park and an industrial sequence of the Hudson River.

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