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Royal Ballet star in shock resignationSergei Polunin, superstar in the making, quits Covent Garden - with a farewell tweet The young Royal Ballet star Sergei Polunin, Covent Garden’s most remarkable male discovery for years, has quit the company today in a stunning shock. The Ukrainian, still only 21, rose rapidly through ranks within two years of joining the Royal Ballet from the Royal Ballet School and was promoted to top rank in 2010 aged only 19, the youngest male principal ever. After a recent performance of Ashton’s Rhapsody theartsdesk’s critic Judith Flanders wrote that he might be even better than Baryshnikov, for whom the ballet was created. His performance last summer with Tamara Rojo in the Fonteyn/Nureyev vehicle Marguerite and Armand by Ashton was equally able to withstand comparison with the original Armand. This evening the dancer tweeted on his Twitter page: “Just have to go through one night!!! then will make my next moves.” Read more here. Photo: A world stage: Polunin as cover boy for the Royal Opera House’s 2009 brochure

Royal Ballet star in shock resignation
Sergei Polunin, superstar in the making, quits Covent Garden - with a farewell tweet

The young Royal Ballet star Sergei Polunin, Covent Garden’s most remarkable male discovery for years, has quit the company today in a stunning shock.

The Ukrainian, still only 21, rose rapidly through ranks within two years of joining the Royal Ballet from the Royal Ballet School and was promoted to top rank in 2010 aged only 19, the youngest male principal ever. After a recent performance of Ashton’s Rhapsody theartsdesk’s critic Judith Flanders wrote that he might be even better than Baryshnikov, for whom the ballet was created. His performance last summer with Tamara Rojo in the Fonteyn/Nureyev vehicle Marguerite and Armand by Ashton was equally able to withstand comparison with the original Armand.

This evening the dancer tweeted on his Twitter page: “Just have to go through one night!!! then will make my next moves.”

Read more here.

Photo: A world stage: Polunin as cover boy for the Royal Opera House’s 2009 brochure

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