No clue why this showed up on HN but it's welcome. Most HN readers probably know Baryshnikov, a titanically gifted dancer who defected from the then-Soviet Union in the 1970s. Soviet ballet was matchless technically but hidebound. He was a free thinker, so, yeah... that didn't work. He flourished in the West. I think he's also an underrated actor, administrator (hey, that means a lot in the art world) and choreographer. This dance is about his friendship with Joseph Brodsky.

Brodsky was a poet with something of the same background, also a Soviet defector. To my mind he is one of the greatest poets in English of the 20th century; like Nabokov he was extraordinarily gifted in more than one language. He in his mid 50s about 20 years ago. I imagine this is one of the more interesting of Baryshnikov's works because they seemed like two birds of a feather. I miss Brodsky terribly and I didn't even know him. Baryshnikov at 67 probably has some dance magic left in him for this performance.