Baryshnikov By Tharp Baryshnikov By Tharp

Baryshnikov By Tharp

Publicity in Ballet News magazine in October 1984.

Baryshnikov performs Push Comes To Shove as included in the television special.

The VHS cover for the re-release titled “Baryshnikov Dances Sinatra and More” by Kultur in 1991.

Tharp and Baryshnikov with cast and crew on set.

Premiere

  • Date

    5 October 1984

  • Broadcaster

    PBS

Production

  • Choreographer

    Twyla Tharp

  • Directors

    Don Mischer and Twyla Tharp

  • Producer

    Rhoda Grauer

  • Executive in charge of Production

    David J. Goldberg

  • Writers

    Peter Elbling and Twyla Tharp

  • Lighting Designers

    William Klages,

    Jennifer Tipton,

    Arnie Smith

  • Costume Designers

    Santo Loquasto,

    Oscar de la Renta

Awards

 

Emmy Awards
Won:
Outstanding Lighting Direction for Limited Series or Special: Bill Klages and Arnie Smith
Outstanding Individual Achievement – Classical Music/Dance Programming – Directing: Don Mischer and Twyla Tharp
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography: Twyla Tharp
Nominated:
Outsanding Individual Achievement – Classical Music/Dance Programming – Writing: Twyla Tharp and Peter Elbling
Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts: Rhoda Grauer, Exec. Producer, and Don Mischer, Producer, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, Host

 

Director’s Guild of America Awards
Won:
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety: Don Mischer and Jan Cornell

Dancers

Mikhail Baryshnikov

 

with

Deirdre Carberry, Elaine Kudo, Amanda McKerrow, Nancy Raffa, Susan Jaffe, Robert LaFosse, Cheryl Yeager

 

and

Melissa Allen, Julie Bickerton, Gil Boggs, Carolyn Brown, Gabrielle Brown, Elizabeth Carr, Peter Fonseca, Suzanne Goldman, Alina Hernandez, Lucette Katerndahl, Elizabeth Laing, Michael Langlois, Kristi Lowe, Valerie Madonia, Meg Potter, Lisa Rinehart, Amy Rose, Hilary Ryan, Scott Schlexer, Kristine Soleri, Anna Spelman, Carla Stallings, Lisa Sundstrom, Mary Wilson

 

  • Number of Dancers

    32

Dance Sections

1. The Little Ballet (1983)

Baryshnikov, Carberry, Kudo, McKerrow, Raffa

2. Sinatra Suite (1983)

Baryshnikov, Kudo

3. Push Comes To Shove (1976)

Baryshnikov, Kudo, Jaffe, LaFosse, Yeager

Allen, Bickerton, Boggs, Brown, Brown, Carr, Fonseca, Goldman, Hernandez, Katerndahl, Laing, Langlois, Lowe, Madonia, McKerrow, Potter, Raffa, Rinehart, Rose, Ryan, Schlexer, Soleri, Spelman, Stallings, Sundstrom, Wilson

  • Runtime

    00:57:35

Description

Don Mischer and Tharp co-directed Baryshnikov By Tharp, which was produced for the PBS series “Great Performances.” In this television special Mikhail Baryshnikov dances the roles he originated in The Little Ballet (1983), Sinatra Suite (1983) and Push Comes To Shove (1976) and narrates brief vignettes between performances. In the vignettes, he describes the basics of ballet in alphabetical order: “A” is for arabesque, “B” for ballon, and so on.

 

Baryshnikov By Tharp was nominated for seven Emmy awards and won three, including outstanding achievements in both Directing and Choreography.

 

It was re-released in 1991 as Baryshnikov Dances Sinatra and More… by KULTUR.