Former Royal Ballet etoile Sergei Polunin spoke to the press about his sudden departure from the London ballet company last week.
"It's a confusing time at the moment, I have made a big decision and the next one will be important so I don't want to rush it. [...] For the moment I'm concentrating on ballet and on rehearsing. I need a few days alone to think about what I'm doing as I haven't decided yet."
The meltdown came after a period that outlined a break-up, crappy tattoos and tweets about late-night clubbing and scoring heroin. We're pulling for Polunin.
His talent was wasted in that awful Wheeldon's "Alice." I hope he has better opportunities, elsewhere.
Posted by: Bill Philin Ploplis | January 30, 2012 at 03:21 AM
I find it selfish to burn your employer like that. I've been reading a lot about this and he comes off as immature. And a ballerina who fills his body with tattoos? No thanks.
Posted by: Wexell | January 31, 2012 at 12:05 PM
It's amazing how tattooing has become the thing to do by everyone at any age. I don't like needles and pain, so it will never be for me. I remember the great mezzo Rosalind Elias had her social security number tattooed on her for I. D. purposes. I was shocked but thought it a good idea.
Posted by: Bill Philin Ploplis | January 31, 2012 at 01:09 PM
Tattooing is a form of self-mutilation; and SS # one one's body is not any better than the numbers inked on prisoners of WW II in German concentration camps.
Posted by: Constantine A. Papas | January 31, 2012 at 11:40 PM