Claudia Zahn<p>Michail <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Baryshnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baryshnikov</span></a> , 2024<br>“It was the start of a new life,” Mikhail Baryshnikov says of the night in 1974 when he dodged K.G.B. agents in Toronto as he rushed to meet Canadian and American friends in a getaway car.<br>By Helen Song<br>Forging a new identity in the West: “When you don’t have authority over you, you start to have crazy ideas about yourself: ‘Oh, I’m like Tarzan in the jungle now. "<br>-in an interview with The New York Times -</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ballet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ballet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dancer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photographer</span></a></p>