I stand corrected.
To be fair I have always kind of loved Mikhail, but as non ballet fan never quite followed much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jj8McPlVY

This is quite fun too.

This is the full one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhupPBoqQSY

I could see Helen and Alijaz doing a showdance to this.

Oh yes, any time. Mikhail was not only the best male ballet dancer I have ever seen (sorry Carlos - I do love you too) but is also an extraordinary force in ballet and contemporary, a fantastic choreographer and all round good man.

Garcia is sex on a stick.

Or indeed the greatest case of step bothering ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlvB4xk4LNQ

One of my favourite scenes in any film EVAH in the entire history of films.

I've actually seen Baryshnikov live on stage 3 times - in 92 and 93 at Sadler's Wells with his White Oak Dance Project, and then in about 2000 in a solo show at the Barbican. He was spell-binding. I have a big framed black and white poster of him, in a bare-chest pose from La Jeune Homme et la Mort, on my bedroom wall *sigh*

Oddly enough that is probably the only routine of his I have actually detested!

So you think MB couldn't jive. Judging from THIS I think he'd slay a swing/balboa type jive!

I have only seen him live once but, like you, I was aware of his White Oak project and his work over the years. He is amazing and one of the most beautiful dancers I have ever seen.

I stand corrected!

But it's hard to convey in words what it's like to actually see him dance live. A moment lost in time, even if embedded in our memories.

You have to have been there.

Which is why I love live dance/iopera/theatre...even a simulcast/recording doesn't do that 'moment' justice.

Growing up in a small island in the mediterranean didnt get to see him live, though I believe he performed at least once but prices were prohibitive for a student like me.
My sister though invited me to see Joaquin Cortes. I know its not the same, but oh man, he is amazing live.

I know it's not the same, but I've adored this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TygmMPbwfjA for years. Many a Saturday afternoon was spent trying to recreate - was told off big time for attempting the beam section on the settee.

True, but his hissy fits, messy love affairs and '5-year in a temper tantrum' ways could create a PR disaster He has had his day.

I'd haul in Daniel Navarro - less flash, more true flamenco

He was fabulous. Shame his life caught up with him. He did change the course of flamenco though, from a male dancer point of view. I like Daniel Navarro now. I've posted a clip

love that dance even if the whole stealing women with the aim of forcing them to marry you thing is really really creepy when you think about it

Perhaps it will be instrumental like "Telephone" was for Katie and Anton?

He certainly is. I feel incredibly lucky to have seen him live.


I completely agree. I was walking on air when I came out of the theatres after seeing him.


I didn't actually get interested in dance/musicals until I was in my early twenties when a flat-mate of mine got me into it (it was her suggestion that we went to see White Nights). In hindsight, I would have loved to have had ballet lessons when I was a child, I think I would have loved it, but I didn't grow up in that kind of family sadly.

Absolutely. I danced to a live tango orchestra in London on Sunday. They had flown in from BA to play just one night. Dancing AT to their music was an experience I will never forget.

There's a link on the Week 4 dances that gives a version they could use, and sounds far more suitable

Thanks, I I'l check it our

Thanks, I'll check it out

Backs back out of thread and waits until you've all stopped dance bothering

I think I'll take RDJ and join you.......

I've got Shemar hidden under the bed

This is what happens when the others are distracted!

Pops head out from under valance