Royal Winnipeg Ballet
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The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.
Centennial Concert Hall, principal performance venue of the RWB
From left to right: Amanda Green, Yosuke Mino, and Vanessa Lawson
Royal Winnipeg Ballet building, 380 Graham Avenue
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s. He subsequently became a noted d
Royal Winnipeg Ballet
…touring company, and actively engaged with choreographers and dancers from around the world to expand the ballet. In 1974, famed Latvian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected to Canada and joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, along with Gelsey Kirkland in fall of that year, desiring to begin his North American career…
Baryshnikov in 2017
Baryshnikov and Patricia McBride at an event in Buenos Aires, 1979.
With Liza Minnelli in Baryshnikov on Broadway, 1980
Baryshnikov receiving his Latvian citizenship passport on April 27, 2017.