At the 1989 Tony Awards, photo by Anita & Steve Shevett

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Little Rock connection: Danced in an event produced by Ballet Arkansas in 1983 at Robinson Center Music Hall.

Tony Awards connection: Nominated for Actor in a Play for his performance as a man turned into a cockroach in a stage adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

To see what Ballet Arkansas is currently producing, attend Momentum this weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). The Ballet Arkansas company will be performing on the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s stage.