The Soloist
Joan Acocella’s Profile of the dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who, after defecting from the Soviet Union, became one of the most famous names in ballet in the twentieth century.
"The minute plane set down, the minute I stepped again on Latvian land, I realized this was never my home. My heart didn't even skip one beat." — Baryshnikov on returning after decades of exile