Month: November 2017

Telegraph Article, November 30, 2017

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Sergei Polunin: how the bad boy of ballet found salvation from drugs and self-harming   By Celia Walden  30 NOVEMBER 2017 • 7:00AM   Sergei Polunin is telling me about pain. There’s the emotional pain ballet dancers grow up with, explains the 28-year-old Ukrainian dancer, actor and model known as […]

Frivolette Article May 11, 2016

Sergei Polunin about favourite ballet and secret of success 11 May, 2016 What was your FIRST stage experience? In “La Bayadere”, in the corps de ballet. I would not say it’s something memorable or interesting. The impression from the childhood Games in the yard with the kids. How to start […]

Sergei Opens Up To Frivolette

Sergei opens up about “Murder on the Orient Express”, Johnny Depp and dreams of playing Spider-Man In the Kenneth Branagh’s film “Murder on the Orient Express” one of the roles – Count Ruldoph Andrenyi – was performed by the 27-year-old dancer Sergei Polunin, former premier of the Royal Ballet in London and […]

Happy Birthday Dear Sergei

Monday, November 20, 2017 Sergei Polunin turned 28 years old.  Birthday greetings flowed in from fans all over the world. This one, posted by Olga Agapova, stood out among the hundreds of lovely salutations.   English translation: “Congratulations to the beloved artist, brilliant dancer Sergey Polunin, happy birthday! I’ve been […]

2017 Article From The Irish Examiner

Dancing to his own tune Friday, March 10, 2017 By Helen Barlow He may have had a reputation as the coke-snorting bad boy of ballet, but Helen Barlow found there’s a lot more to Sergei Polunin. He talks about dancing to Hozier and how he came to possess Mickey Rourke’s bloody pants. […]

Destructive Power Of Ballet Laid Bare

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Pointe break: ballet’s destructive power laid bare in Sergei Polunin documentary Steven Cantor’s intimate film about the rebellious dancer exposes the pressures heaped on young prodigies – and has vital lessons for the industry  Unresolved demons … Sergei Polunin. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian By Judith Mackrell for The […]

Prince Of Ballet, Sergei Polunin

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For EuroNews by Elena Karaeva   25/10/2016 Sergei Polunin picked up the crown of the ballet prince many years after she fell out of the weakening hands of the dying Nureyev. Like the legendary defector, completely changing the classical ballet for several decades ahead, Polunin reluctantly fits into the framework of the troupe […]

Reverence

Reverence.  What is it?   reverence [rev-er-uh ns, rev-ruh ns]   noun. 1.  a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration. 2.  the outward manifestation of this feeling: to pay reverence. 3.  a gesture indicative of deep respect; a bow, or curtsy. Merci beaucoup!

James Dean, Sergei Takes On The Rebel, 2012

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Sergei Polunin takes on James Dean by Ballet News on March 10, 2012 Sergei Polunin dances James Dean for Men in Motion With a headline screaming “Sergei Polunin: I’ll give up ballet by 26” in The Guardian last Tuesday, Alex Needham wrote that, “Men in Motion includes the first dance he [Polunin] has ever choreographed, a piece about James […]

Yuri Soloviev, the real-life dancer Sergei will reportedly portray in “White Crow”

The following is a brief biography of the real-life dancer Sergei Polunin will reportedly be portraying in the upcoming film “White Crow,” a bio pic about Rudolf Nureyev. Yuri Soloviev The mention of the name of Yuri Soloviev arouses great excitement from those who were fortunate enough to see him […]