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Can We Please Stop Talking About Sergei Polunin?

Last week, Variety reported that Sergei Polunin would reunite with the team behind Dancer for another documentary. “Where ‘Dancer’ looked at his whole life, family and influences,” director Steven Cantor said, ” ‘Satori’ will focus more squarely on his creative process as performer and, for the first time ever, choreographer.” The title references a poorly […]

Paris Opéra Ballet Revokes Sergei Polunin's Invitation to Guest Star

Sergei Polunin, whose recent homophobic and sexist Instagram posts have sparked international outrage, will not be appearing with the Paris Opéra Ballet as previously announced. POB artistic director Aurélie Dupont sent an internal email to company staff and dancers on Sunday, explaining that she did not share Polunin’s values and that the Russian-based dancer would […]

Sergei Polunin to Guest With POB, Despite Homophobic Comments

If you follow Sergei Polunin on Instagram, you’ve probably noticed that lately something has been…off. Though Polunin has long had a reputation for behaving inappropriately, in the last month his posts have been somewhat unhinged. In one, Polunin, who is Ukrainian, shows off his new tattoo of Vladimir Putin: But his remarks about Putin (“What […]

Ballet's Bad Boy Sergei Polunin Is Back in This New Video

Ukrainian ballet dancer Sergei Polunin doesn’t appear to have completely shed his bad-boy skin. A new video from Rankin Hunger Magazine, “Sergei x Rankin,” shows us what happens when Polunin is given total freedom to explore his tendency for raw, emotional movement. Paired with British photographer Rankin, the duo creates a captivating video that explores […]

Sergei Polunin Gets His Big Hollywood Break

It looks like Sergei Polunin has finally gotten his wish. The controversial dancer, who abruptly quit The Royal Ballet in 2012 after becoming the company’s youngest-ever principal, has repeatedly expressed his desire to be in movies. In fact, his current status as a permanent guest artist at Bavarian State Ballet allows him to have more […]