WHY NOW? BECAUSE DANCE AND LIFE ARE LINKED. IF DANCING IS A WAY OF EXPRESS YOURSELF, THE DANCER CAN'T BE TOTALLY FREE IF THE PERSON BEHIND IS NOT 100% FREE. SO MIKHAIL "THE DANCER", AND MIKHAIL "THE MAN" DEFECTED.
It's not a coincidence that Mikhail baryshnikov made the same choice that NUREYEV did years before.
LEGEND 1
“Dance is freedom!...if you're not 100% free, you're not 100% a dancer. That's why he leaves today.............that's why HE left. yesterday ”
LEGEND 2
“ Need no cell to put a dancer in a prison. Just tell him that he CAN NOT do one thing, no matter what...and he will fell like he's got a rope around the neck ”
June 29, 1974
Mikhail Baryshnikov, while on tour in Canada with the Mariinsky Ballet, defected, requesting political asylum in Toronto, 13 years after Rudolf Nureyev did the same thing................. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY RIGHT HERE.
