Dance Ballet Photo Colette Masson Mikhail Baryshnikov White Oak Dance 1992

Mikhail Baryshnikov began his television career in early 1976 on the American public television network, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), in the program In Performance Live from Wolf Trap. In 1977 he appeared in the lead role – alongside Gelsey Kirkland, Alexander Minz and a number of other dancers from the company – in a filmed version of the Nutcracker ballet produced in an episode of Iconoclasts, a television series released on the Sundance Channel. The two become friends. They discuss their ways of living, their respective sources of inspiration and their projects. Alice Waters came to visit the Barychnikov Art center in New York during the performances and Barychnikov did not fail to return the favor by visiting Chez Panisse, Alice Waters’ restaurant in Berkeley during a Hell’s Kitc.