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Born in Riga while it was under Soviet rule, this Latvian-American ballet dancer ran away to the West while on tour with the Kirov in 1974, and later lived for a while with his family in the small Litchfield County town of Sherman, Connecticut. Which former top Kirov dancer, later famous for crossing over into Hollywood, is being described?
Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948 in Riga) became a top dancer with American Ballet Theatre after fleeing the Soviet Union in 1974, and later lived for a time with his family in Sherman, Connecticut. He started the White Oak Dance Project in 1990 and the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York in 2005.