#Baryshnikov doing 2 sets of pirouettes en plié (0:20 and 0:25)
(I’ve only seen 1 other dancer do this, and only in plié for 1 turn)

Mikhail Baryshnikov rehearsing Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, ca. 1975
Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582, Johann Sebastian Bach
choreographed by Roland Petit, 1946
one-act libretto by Jean Cocteau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5neEnACZBc

#ballet #dancer #JSBach #RolandPetit #JeanCocteau #athleticism #music #AmericanBalletTheatre #ABT

(see also White Nights, 1985)