Shura Baryshnikov

Shura Baryshnikov was born in 1981 in Stillwater, Minnesota, to Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Lange. She has five half-siblings including Anna Baryshnikov and Hannah Jane Shepard. Baryshnikov attended Marlboro College where she majored in American studies and also studied theatre and contemporary dance.

Shura Baryshnikov works as a teaching associate at Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, working primarily with actors and directors, teaching dance, movement, and contact improvisation. She has served as a choreographer as well as a movement consultant for The Wilbury Theatre Group, Trinity Repertory Company, and Elemental Theatre Collective. In addition, Baryshnikov has also worked as a freelance dancer. She has performed in works by Betsy Miller, Ali Kenner-Brodsky and Heidi Henderson. She has also danced with the American Dance Legacy Initiative, Aerplaye Dance, Festival Ballet Providence, Elemental Theatre Collective, Lostwax Multimedia Dance and Bridge Rep of Boston.

Baryshnikov has taught dance at the Salve Regina University, Rhode Island College, Dean College, Connecticut College, and MIT. She also works as a dance teacher at Moses Brown School. She has worked with the SITI Company under Anne Bogart as well. The American choreographer/dancer is also a part of Actors' Equity Association. She is the co-founder of the Doppelganger Dance Collective, a dance company she founded with Danielle Davidson.

As an actress, Baryshnikov has starred in a production of the play ‘Salome’ at the Boston’s Bridge Repertory Theater. She was also a cast member in the musical ‘Oklahoma.’ Her performances have been showcased at the RISD Museum, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence Fringe Festival and in the Moving Arts Lab at Earthdance.