Baryshnikov at 75: Laurie Anderson, Diana Krall, Regina Spektor & More at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 6/25

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) goes upstate to honor its Founder & Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov's 75th birthday. Mikhail Baryshnikov at 75 will be a day of music, art, and celebration produced by BAC to take place at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (Tivoli, NY) on Sunday, June 25, 2023.

Co-presented by BAC and Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, this fundraising event will feature an afternoon concert on Kaatsbaan’s idyllic 153-acre property by some of today’s definitive voices in music. The lineup will include influential musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries whose work has inspired Mr. Baryshnikov throughout his life in the U.S.: American avant-garde artist, composer, and musician Laurie Anderson, Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall, Russian–born American singer, songwriter, and pianist Regina Spektor, and North America's leading practitioner of Japanese flutes and percussion Kaoru Watanabe. The program will also feature a musical performance by choreographer Mark Morris and remarks by actress Anna Baryshnikov. The program will be directed by Teddy Bergman.

About Baryshnikov: Born in Riga, Latvia and living in New York City, Mikhail Baryshnikov has distinguished himself as an extraordinary dancer and performer in theater, television and film. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he has worked with illustrious choreographers and directors. After a spectacular beginning with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he came to the West in 1974 and was principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT). In 1978 he joined New York City Ballet, where he worked with George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. From 1979-1989 he was artistic director of ABT where he introduced a new generation of dancers and choreographers. From 1990-2002, Mr. Baryshnikov was director and principal dancer of the White Oak Dance Project, which he and choreographer Mark Morris co-founded to expand the repertoire and visibility of American modern dance. As an actor he has performed widely on- and off-Broadway, as well as in television and film, receiving a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Metamorphosis, and an Academy Award nomination for The Turning Point. For the past ten years, he has appeared in many theatrical productions and worked with established and avant-garde directors including Robert Wilson, JoAnne Akalaitis, Rezo Gabriadze, Dmitry Krymov, Alvis Hermanis, among many others. Recent projects include NOT ONCE., a cinematic installation developed in collaboration with Jan Fabre and Phil Griffin, a theatrical production and film directed by Latvian director Alvis Hermanis entitled The White Helicopter, a new adaptation of Chekhov’s masterpiece The Cherry Orchard directed by Igor Golyak, and most recently François Girard’s The Hunting Gun. In 2005, he launched the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) in New York City, a creative space designed to support multidisciplinary artists from around the globe. Mr. Baryshnikov’s many awards include the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honor of France, Japan’s prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award in Theatre/Film, and the Royal Academy of Dance’s Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award.