Baryshnikov's daughter to teach dance at Providence's Moses Brown School

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Shura Baryshnikov -- daughter of ballet great Mikhail Baryshnikov and actress Jessica Lange -- will join the performing arts faculty at Providence's Moses Brown School in the fall, the private Quaker school has announced.

Also joining the school's arts faculty will be Steve Kidd, who works at Pawtucket's Gamm Theatre as both an actor and the education director.

Shura Baryshnikov, a teaching associate in the Brown/Trinity MFA program and a faculty member at Festival Ballet Providence, has also taught movement at MIT, Dean College and Rhode Island College. A graduate of Marlboro College in Vermont, she will be Moses Brown's dance coordinator, relaunching its dance program.

"As a freelance dancer and performer," a news release said, Baryshnikov "has appeared in works by Heidi Henderson, Ali Kenner-Brodsky and Betsy Miller, among others, and with Aerplaye Dance, American Dance Legacy Initiative, Festival Ballet Providence, Lostwax Multimedia Dance, Elemental Theatre Collective and Workhorse Theatre."

On Sunday, it added, her "contact improvisation project 'improv/in/sight' will be presented by the RISD Museum and performed in RISD's Grand Gallery."

Kidd, who has appeared in over 30 plays at the Gamm, and has taught acting at several colleges, will teach performance studies and direct Moses Brown's upper-school theater productions.