Watch Your Ballet Boyfriend, Sergei Polunin, Being Beautiful in the Trailer for His Documentary

May 12, 2016

There are few better ways to celebrate Friday than with a gorgeous, phenomenally talented ballet dude. Which is why the new trailer for Dancer—the upcoming documentary about Sergei Polunin, “the James Dean of the ballet world“—is just what you need today.

You know Sergei Polunin
. He’s the one who had an insanely rapid rise to fame at The Royal Ballet, where he was named the company’s youngest-ever principal in 2010. He’s the one who then quit the company at 21, in a fit of what seemed like self-destruction, becoming one of ballet’s bad-boy rebels. He’s the one who starred in that hauntingly beautiful Hozier video that exploded the internet last year. And he’s the one who is now, tentatively, returning to ballet—with the support of his new girlfriend, ballerina extraordinaire Natalia Osipova.

Did we mention that he’s really pretty? (via @sergeipolunin_)

Polunin is a natural documentary subject; there’s a already a heck of a lot of story in his life. That makes us especially eager to see Dancer, which is produced by West End Films and directed by Oscar-nominated Steven Cantor. The film is currently slated for release sometime this summer. In the meantime, please enjoy the trailer, which has sweet (and impressive) footage of Polunin as a very young dancer, as well as some fantastic footage of his more recent performances.

Happy Friday, friends:


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