Movies by Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Turning Point

The Turning Point

As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an international ballet icon. But when Deedee's teenage daughter is invited to join Emma's dance company and begins an affair with a young Russian star, the two women are forced to confront the choices they've made, the resentments they've hidden and the emotional truths they must face at the turning point.

Carmen

Carmen

Studio 54

Studio 54

Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.

Bob Hope on the Road to China

Bob Hope on the Road to China

Bob Hope tours China, takes in the culture and meets up with Big Bird, Crystal Gayle, Peaches and Herb, and others.

Giselle

Giselle

The ballet tells the story of a peasant girl named Giselle whose ghost, after her premature death, protects her lover from the vengeance of a group of evil female spirits called Wilis

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.

The Hip Hop Nutcracker

The Hip Hop Nutcracker

Features Rev Run as he brings audiences on a hip-hop reimagining of The Nutcracker ballet set in NYC.

A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy

A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy

A documentary with stars from the original cast.

Babilée '91

Babilée '91

The portrait of an extraordinary French dancer-choreographer: Jean Babilée (1923-2014) is filmed at home, in the streets of Paris, at the Opera Garnier or at the Champs-Élysées Theater, “always caught, even in his kitchen, in full body work”.