Kate Moss to dance a duet with one of ballet's greatest stars
She has been a model, a pop star, a fashion designer and even a pole dancer – and now Kate Moss has set her sights on becoming a ballerina.
The supermodel is working on a duet with Sex And The City star Mikhail Baryshnikov, who is regarded as one of the great ballet dancers of the modern era.
Miss Moss will star in a short film with the 62-year-old Russian – with the working title Baryshnimoss – made by the renowned choreographer and director Michael Clark.
The 36-year-old has been taking private ballet lessons with Clark and is set to embark on a gruelling three-month training regime before filming starts in Marseille in July.
According to people close to the production, Miss Moss has been advised to cut down on her party lifestyle.
‘Kate has to be fit, healthy and looking good, so her late nights and heavy partying have to be reduced. I know that she is very happy to do that and has talked about wanting to get fit and healthy herself,’ says a source.
‘It will be a movie made for them so she doesn’t have to be a prima ballerina, even though she is having classes.
‘Baryshnikov is a beautiful man but he is in his 60s so you don’t ask him to jump really high or do this or do that. It will be interesting because it will be about them.
‘In Michael’s eye as a film-maker, the movement of the camera dances already by itself. It will be an extremely interesting collaboration and the film will be the result of the dance.
‘It will be shown at some sort of fund-raiser but if anything it will go into a gallery where everybody can see it. I think that is how Michael sees it.’
However, it remains to be seen if Miss Moss can kick her party lifestyle. Just last week the Croydon-born supermodel was spotted looking worse for wear at a charity fashion show.
Miss Moss, who will fly to New York next month to start working with Baryshnikov, has previously tried her hand at a number of artistic endeavours.
She has sung with Primal Scream and her ex-boyfriend Pete Doherty’s band Babyshambles, and made her acting debut in the 1999 short film Blackadder: Back & Forth.
She has also launched her own fashion line for the High Street chain Topshop, and performed a pole dance in a pop video for The White Stripes.
Baryshnikov, who appeared as Carrie Bradshaw’s artist boyfriend in Sex And The City, started his career with the Kirov Ballet (now the Mariinsky) in St Petersburg before defecting to Canada in 1974.
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can't wait to see this. i love Baryshnikov
? would YOU be able to walk in those shoes in a straight line?
