Sergei Polunin with Steven Cantor on David Lachapelle, Jade Hale-Christofi with Hozier's Take Me To Church, and Ilan Eshkeri: "Yes! I want to unite artists." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In Steven Cantor's Dancer, Sergei Polunin burns bright with a ferocious energy. British Royal Ballet's youngest ever male principal dancer, Polunin, has been compared to Nureyev and dismissed as party boy by the media. The documentary, executive produced by Steve Coogan, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Christine Langan, Henry Normal, Jamie Schutz, and Nichola Martin, with producer Gabrielle Tana, creatively avoids neither side, and, with extensive access to the Polunin family and archival footage, paints a far more complex picture of the young man and his journey.
Sergei Polunin: "You cannot create more steps for ballet. Everything is already developed but you can freshen it up ..."
Growing up in Kherson, Southern Ukraine, where "everybody was poor," Sergei says, "you don't feel the difference.
In Steven Cantor's Dancer, Sergei Polunin burns bright with a ferocious energy. British Royal Ballet's youngest ever male principal dancer, Polunin, has been compared to Nureyev and dismissed as party boy by the media. The documentary, executive produced by Steve Coogan, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Christine Langan, Henry Normal, Jamie Schutz, and Nichola Martin, with producer Gabrielle Tana, creatively avoids neither side, and, with extensive access to the Polunin family and archival footage, paints a far more complex picture of the young man and his journey.
Sergei Polunin: "You cannot create more steps for ballet. Everything is already developed but you can freshen it up ..."
Growing up in Kherson, Southern Ukraine, where "everybody was poor," Sergei says, "you don't feel the difference.
- 9/26/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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