Producers
a Change Performing Arts and Baryshnikov Productions project In collaboration with Attiki Cultural Society (Greece)
Exclusive representative for Greece: Attiki Cultural Society
commissioned by Spoleto Festival dei 2Mondi, BAM, Cal Performances University of California Berkeley, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA in collaboration with Teatros del Canal Madrid, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo/Monaco Dance Forum
executive production CRT Milano
a special thank to: the Vaslav and Romola Nijinsky Estate Farrar Strauss & Giroux's The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, Unexpurgated Edition,
edited by Joan Acocella
Giorgio Armani Asylum courtesy of James Casebere and Sean Kelly Gallery
LTAM was presented in Italy Spoleto Festival, Milano, Paris Theatre de la Ville, BAM (NY), UCLA (LA), Madrid.
It will be presented in Barcelona, Athens, South Ameriica etc.
“A collage of austere visual grandeur and Delphic incantations”
Max McGuinness
“Baryshnikov here is an exaggerated being, suavely dressed and intricately made up so that he can be, depending on movement and expression and lighting and setting, a soigné, a clown, a vampire, a vaudevillian, a surreal character out of Gogol or a paranoid one out of Dostoyevsky. At the drop of a hat, Baryshnikov comes to life with the sly, smooth, beguiling shuffle steps. Stillness and motion are, for him, two sides of the same being, and whether moving or striking a pose, he is ever picture worthy.”
“Baryshnikov plays Nijinsky in the grip of insanity.”
“Baryshnikov Delivers a Thrilling Letter to a Man- The exploration of Vaslav Nijinsky’s art and madness known as Letter to a Man, created by Mikhail Baryshnikov, the sole performer, and Robert Wilson, is a stunner. To be sure, it’s a slow stunner, checking in at 70 solid minutes and bereft of the kind of dancing Baryshnikov, 68, did at his peak of renown. But what it has is far greater than what it hasn’t.”
“”Misha” quite some time ago ventured into modern and
contemporary dance, film, television, theater, and photography. Here he appears in a unique tête-à-tête with Vaslav Nijinsky, his equivalent in the first half of the last century.”
« Dans les rêves et la folie de Vaslav Nijinski. A Paris, Robert Wilson façonne un bijou de poésie scénique à partir du journal d’un danseur. »
« Letter to a Man : Mikhail Baryshnikov, à la folie À l'Espace Cardin à Paris, Robert Wilson présente Letter to a Man. Inspiré du Journal de Vaslav Nijinski, ce spectacle bref, beau, volontairement répétitif, est illuminé par la présence du danseur russe qui n'a rien perdu de sa grâce envoûtante. »
