![]() "Once you achieve something you just want to move on and achieve something else and keep achieving, like Alexander the Great - he captured one country and then he just kept doing it.ITV axes celebrity reality show which saw Scarlett Moffatt, Jess Wright and Tallia Storm compete over four series "I don't think I would want to be dancing in six years but I would love to achieve something else in a different profession. "I have been working quite hard with this, learning new pieces that are 10 minutes long, five minutes long, and choreographing my own piece."īut even with the rehearsal set up being more to Polunin's liking, when asked if he expects to be dancing in five or six years' time the answer is currently no: However, he insists that he has still had to labour at rehearsals for this production: "What's good for me is late in the evening, with plenty of time to wake up, to have a little bit of day and then come in." One change in his life which Polunin does find agreeable is not having to attend rehearsals in the morning: "It is one of the hardest things to stay free and keep being open, and maybe that is what Sergei is doing now, trying to be open to so many different things, which is wonderful." They never look out and never explore and so they become claustrophobic in a way. ![]() "Often people in the arts, not just in dancing, close themselves to only what they do and look just in one direction. Putrov, is keen that people see Polunin's decision to leave the Royal Ballet in a positive light - as a creative, rather than destructive step: He is about to perform in Men in Motion, a celebration of male ballet, with his friend Ivan Putrov, at Sadler's Wells theatre in London "I can't say that I am happy now, I am still finding out what I am going to do I am going to explore different directions."įor now that means continuing with dancing. ![]() However, when asked if it has made him happy he says no, at least not yet: Polunin says that taking such a drastic course of action made him feel good "because you just throw everything you had away and you clean yourself in a way".Ĭritics liken Polunin to ballet greats Nureyev and Baryshnikov "It is almost like a delete button and you just want to start fresh." "I don't want to have comfort, I don't want to have a family, I don't want to have a flat - so I destroyed in a way everything I had in order to be able to build." "I do not want to sit and make a nest and be comfortable, and I did feel so comfortable that I stopped being involved as a person and an artist and that is not something I want. Polunin says it was a decision driven not by a desire to give up, but by a desire to continue to achieve: ![]() So, in January, just a week before he was due to appear as the lead in a production of The Dream he took Royal Ballet Director Dame Monica Mason aside and told her he was leaving. "In a way I did feel that the artist in me was dying a little bit and I wasn't giving as much of myself and putting as much creativity into it as I could, as I should." It is this absolute focus on ballet, at the expense of everything else, which Polunin points to when asked about what sparked his shock exit: Polunin became the youngest Royal Ballet principal at the age of 19 ![]()
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