"Aging Gracefully, Baryshnikov Sells Out UB"
By HANAN HARB AND BENJAMIN SIEGEL | Feb. 2, 2004Women wore their finest minks, and students wore their Sunday best. The patrons at the Center for the Arts Friday and Saturday nights were dressed to the nines for two rare appearances by dance legend Mikhail Baryshnikov.The CFA presented two sold-out performances of "Solos with Piano or not ... An Evening of Music and Dance." Pianist Pedja Muzijevic accompanied Baryshnikov for the first act of the evening.The entire program consisted of entirely new choreography, including Eliot Feld's "Yazoo," which premiered two nights before Baryshnikov's Friday performance in Holyoke, Mass.In Baryshnikov's first piece, Cesc Gelabert's "In a Landscape," Baryshnikov utilized unusual movements with his arms and legs, outstretching his limbs to emphasize John Cage's melancholic music.
