Video: 5 scandalous facts about the biography of the # 1 star of modern ballet Sergei Polunin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
He is called the main bully of the ballet world and a dance prodigy. His name is put on a par with Nuriev and Baryshnikov. He starred in commercials and video clips and dreams of movie roles. Ambitious and incredibly talented "Anfan Terribl" of modern ballet Sergei Polunin by the age of 25 he had become the youngest premier of the Royal Ballet in London, quit Covent Garden, returned to Moscow, won the Bolshoi Ballet project on the Kultura TV channel and earned a scandalous reputation as a “bad guy”.
Sergei Polunin was born in Kherson, studied at a choreographic school in Kiev, from the age of 13 he studied at a ballet school in London. At 19 he became the youngest Covent Garden premier in the history of the royal troupe. After three years of a dizzying career in England, he suddenly decided to quit and left the stage right during the rehearsal: “As Steve Jobs said, if you wake up for four days in a row with the thought that you don’t want to go to work, don’t go. While young, you have to try new things. Having become prime minister in London, you understand that this is not at all what you wanted."
His best friend in London was a black American who served three times in prison for serious crimes. Together with him, Polunin opened a tattoo parlor on the outskirts of the city. “When shop windows were smashed a couple of years ago in London, I knew about twenty of those whom the police were looking for at the time. I am worried about the line between legal and illegal. I myself will never go to steal, but it is interesting to be near such people,”Polunin admits.
The dancer's body is covered with numerous tattoos. On his chest are scars from wounds that he inflicted on himself with a razor. At the same time, he only regrets that the scars are "fake" - they were not received in battle.
It was often written about him that he "leads a hectic life." Polunin does not hide the fact that after the performance he usually spends time in nightclubs, because the adrenaline rush on the stage then prevents him from falling asleep. At one time he experimented with drugs. Once the dancer admitted that he took cocaine before performing at Covent Garden.
Sergei Polunin became the face of the advertising campaign for the Marc Jacobs brand, starred in a video directed by David LaChapelle for the Hozier song “Take Me to Church”, and is going to star in a film about a rugby star with Mickey Rourke.
Sergei Polunin went to his goal from childhood, exhausting himself with endless studies and rehearsals. Success in ballet is never easy - this is evidenced by photo cycle about the exhausting journey to Russian ballet
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