Growing up in Riga, Latvia, little Misha was introduced to the world of drama by his culture-vulture mom, Alexandra. "When I was 5 or 6, my mother used to drag me around to the theater," the world's most celebrated living male ballet dancer is saying, as he settles into a chair in a conference room inside his Manhattan operational base, the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:04PM on November 29, 2013