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Polunin “Miracle” in Ashton with Ananiashvili

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Polunin Miracle in Ashton ballet with Nina Ananiashvili Excerpts from a November 2015 review by Tatiana Kuznetsova Frederick Ashton’s increasing popularity in Russia is shown in a new triple bill at the Stanislavsky Ballet, directed by Igor Zelensky, and starring Sergei Polunin in Rhapsody and Marguerite and Armand with Nina Ananiashvili. Tatiana Kuznetsova of Kommersant was swept […]

Sergei’s Swan Swims

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“And The Swan Is Swimming” Belcanto.ru  Ekaterina Belyaeva, 11.10.2012 The ballet season at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater opened on September 29 with Swan Lake.  Vladimir Burmeister’s version. Apart from the fact that it is a cult spectacle for the theater and, in general, a cult Russian ballet, plus the highest-grossing […]

Sergei Helps Make A Ballerina 2018

Need To Turn A Hollywood Star Into a Ballerina? Call Kurt Froman By Jennifer Stahl for Dance Magazine February 2018  How does someone go from a New York City Ballet corps member to training Hollywood A-listers like Natalie Portman, Rooney Mara and Jennifer Lawrence? By getting injured, says Kurt Froman. […]

It’s Elemental!

Earth, Air, Fire, Water… and Sergei!! “Elemental” Sergei Polunin / Сергей Полунин Earth – La Bayadere Air – Sleeping Beauty Fire – Marguerite & Armand Water – Sleeping Beauty Music: “The Long Story” by Damiano Baldoni with permission under license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/… Please subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/PamBoehmeSimon For additional […]

Sergei & Manon, 2011

Manon, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Review Lauren Cuthbertson makes her mark in her debut performance of Manon at the Royal Opera House. By Sarah Crompton 10 Nov 2011 In 2009 the Royal Ballet principal Lauren Cuthbertson was diagnosed with glandular fever, which turned into agonisingly debilitating ME and […]

Royal Opera House Opens New Exhibition 2010

October 21, 2010 Royal Ballet principal dancers Tamara Rojo and Sergei Polunin announce the opening of a new exhibition from Royal Opera House Collections and The Lowry, Manchester.  Tamara and Sergei are wearing the costumes from “Birthday Offering.” “Birthday Offering” is a pièce d’occasion in one scene choreographed by Frederick Ashton to music […]

“Passion De Deux” Natalia And Sergei

Passion de deux: The explosive chemistry between Royal Ballet superstar Natalia Osipova and ‘bad boy’ dancer Sergei Polunin By Charlotte Pearson Methven For You Magazine PUBLISHED: 20:02 EST, 3 September 2016 | UPDATED: 20:02 EST, 3 September 2016 My interview with Russian ballet star Natalia Osipova has not got off to the best of starts.  So […]

2015 Sunday Times Article About Sergei and Natalia

Sergei Polunin and Natalia Osipova: A Russian pas de deux mixing love and diva complexes November 8 2015, 12:01am, The Sunday Times Sergei and Natalia are the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of the ballet world: beautiful, talented and unpredictable. As individuals, Sergei Polunin and Natalia Osipova are a box-office draw. […]

Backstage With Sergei Polunin, The Guardian 2013

Sergei Polunin and the Stanislavsky Ballet backstage in Coppélia – in pictures In one of the most anticipated ballet events of the summer, Ukranian superstar Sergei Polunin is back in London to dance the lead role in Coppélia at the Coliseum – the same venue he mysteriously fled in April. Photographer Tristram Kenton was granted […]

Devant’s Giselle

Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin in Giselle Jack Devant SEPT/23/2016 Classical Opening ballet of the new season with new ballet director Igor Zelensky. Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin in Giselle, music by Adolphe Adam, choreography by Peter Wright after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, conductor Aivo Välja, artistic director Igor Zelensky. Shot […]

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