What is it like to work with the famous Baryshnikov?
He’s pretty incredible, as everyone knows. Once he takes something into his body and mind, he takes it somewhere that you can’t even imagine. Once it leaves him it’s magic. I think it would be hard for him to do something that isn’t incredible. I think initially when I was making Come In, the piece I did with him and Hell’s Kitchen Dance, I was a bit like, “what do I do?”, for the first hour. “What do I do with this man, who really is an ordinary man that does extraordinary things?” But that was only for the first day. Mikhail is an incredible man, but he’s also really down to earth and a really beautiful human being as well. He just wants to be a dancer in the studios, being directed. He wants to facilitate the creation of emerging artists. It’s not a big pressure, it’s about the process and about seeing what happens in the studio and keeping it exciting. It’s about just having fun. It helped that I had known him for a couple of years before working with him, and I knew how supportive
