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Aleksandra "Shura" Lange Baryshnikova (born March 5, 1981) is an American dancer, choreographer, dance educator, and actress. Early life. Aleksandra Lange Baryshnikov is the daughter of ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and actress Jessica Lange.
3,700 Followers, 2,269 Following, 127 Posts - Shura Baryshnikov (@slbaryshnikov) on Instagram: "https://go.brown.edu/tickets/FOD23".
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Jan 28, 2022 · Shura Baryshnikov is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She is the daughter of actress Jessica Lange and ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Trained in classical ballet as a kid, she grew up accompanying her mother to various filming locations.
Jun 11, 2015 · Shura's talks of fear in a very intimate story about her own personal life experience along with her path to take up dance, leading into a performance with a dance partner. Shura Baryshnikov...
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I’ve worked with Boston Lyric Opera a number of times before. Brad Vernatter, the acting general and artistic director, contacted me and said that they had selected this piece of music—Ana Sokolović’sSvadba—for their season. When he listened to it, he immediately thought this will make an incredible dance film and asked me if I wanted to direct.
Yes. The quartet that happens in the living room, which is kind of a call-and-response, felt like they are kind of performing almost a skit for the bride. They embody these traditional folk songs and they are playing this antagonist, like masculine and feminine energy, almost tongue-in-cheek stereotypes for her in the moment. And then there are the...
This is my first professional film project of this kind of scale. You know, I’ve made small dance films during the pandemic like many people, playing around and learning how to do some of my own editing. But, quite honestly, I have a complicated relationship with film in the sense that once the material is set, that’s all you have to work with. I l...
Shura Baryshnikov is a dancer, actor, choreographer, and educator who works in various genres and styles. She has co-founded dance projects, designed movement for theater, and taught at Brown University and other institutions.
Jan 14, 2019 · Shura Baryshnikov, the 37-year-old daughter of ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov and Academy Award-winning actor Jessica Lange, is in town this weekend, and will perform with the...
