Natalia makarova

Natalia Makarova as Nikiya in La Bayadere, 1980, performed at the American Ballet Theater, New York. Choreography: Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa. (Photo: Jack Vartoogian)

Natalia Makarova

Natalia Makarova

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Natalia Makarova and Anthony Dowell in Jerome Robbins’ “Other Dances”

On July 27, 1974, Mikhail Baryshnikov made his American Ballet Theatre debut, dancing opposite fellow expatriate Natalia Makarova in Giselle mere weeks after his defection from the Soviet Union. The then-26-year-old caused a sensation, with Dance Magazine contributor Olga Maynard observing in her review, “If Baryshnikov exerts his good influences on ballet in the West […]