After the kerfuffle about Sergei Polunin leaving ballet for Hollywood - announced by the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre's General Manager, Ara Karapetian - Polunin is now back in Russia and the ballet world to make his début in Spartacus. However, it will not be at the Stanislavsky (where he is still listed as Principal), but at the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
At both theatres the Artistic Director of the ballet companies is Polunin's mentor Igor Zelensky, and it is Zelensky who will play the Roman consul Crassus opposite the young Russian star. Anna Zharov will dance the role of Spartacus' wife, Phrygia, and Anna Odintsova (nominee for this year's Golden Mask Award) will be Aegina.
Polunin has not been twiddling his thumbs in America, however. He has been filming with ACL Digital Cinema - the Hawaii-based company who do those staggering films of surfers shooting through waves - with an extraordinary flying camera to capture him moving from the most unexpected angles. ...continue reading.
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