Tag: sergei polunin

Oh Hey, This Is Just a Video of Your Ballet Boyfriend Sergei Polunin Posing Shirtless for a Sculptor, Nothing to See Here

Obviously, dancers make natural muses for sculptors. (Just ask Degas or Rodin.) What artist wouldn’t want to capture their singularly beautiful bodies—bodies that serve as instruments, bodies that speak? And when the sculpt-able dancer body in question belongs to Sergei Polunin—ballet bad boy, star of the upcoming film Red Sparrow, muse to David LaChapelle, *cough* […]

Guess Who's Jennifer Lawrence's Dance Double in Red Sparrow?

If you’re a devoted Jennifer Lawrence fan—and if you’re not, really, we’re not friends—you’ve probably noticed that J. Law has been in Budapest recently, filming her new ballet spy movie Red Sparrow. If you’re also a devoted Isabella Boylston fan—and if you’re not already, you need to be—you’ve probably noticed that the American Ballet Theatre […]

This Sergei Polunin Interview Is Everything

(Photo by Thomas Whiteside for Interview) Sergei Polunin, AKA everyone’s dream ballet boyfriend, is something of a rarity in the world of classical ballet—super outspoken, honest and always looking ahead to the next move, he made a name for himself as the “James Dean of the ballet world.” It’s always exciting to hear what Polunin […]

The Sergei Polunin Documentary Looks Beautiful

You probably know Sergei Polunin as the “bad boy of ballet,” the guy who made the dance world raise its collective eyebrows when he peaced out of his cushy principal contract with The Royal Ballet. No? Well, you definitely know him as the gorgeous man from the Hozier video that broke the internet a few […]

The Jookin' Ballerina

You guys already know how much we love Lil Buck. (Our friends at Dance Magazine love him so much they put him on their August cover.) And one of the reasons the jookin’ sensation is so awesome is that his super-smooth, super-musical style incorporates an incredible be-sneakered version of pointework. Nobody can match Lil Buck’s […]