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BBC Radio 4 Front Row’s John Wilson interviews ballet superstar Sergei Polunin
BBC Radio 4 Interview from 2013 with ballet dancer Sergei Polunin backstage before Coppelia at the London Coliseum marking a return one of his first returns since leaving the Royal Ballet.
Interviewer: John Wilson
Sergei Polunin as Frantz and Kristina Shapran as Swanilda in the Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet’s production of Roland Petit’s Coppelia at the London Coliseum.
Sergei Polunin is a Ukrainian ballet dancer famous for his “once every hundred years” talent, his incredulous elevation, his impeccable technique, and glorious dramatic range. He brought an unprecedented new awareness to ballet when he danced in Hozier’s viral video ”Take Me To Church.” He starred in Diesel’s “Make Love Not Walls” campaign, and is a much sought after model and actor. He has appeared in such films as Murder On The Orient Express, Dancer (a documentary of his life), White Crow, and Red Sparrow.
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