Sergei Polunin, the Ukrainian prodigy who stunned the dance world by walking out on the Royal Ballet, is to return to the UK for a brutal show "as far away from Swan Lake as you can get".
The 22-year-old, who was made the Royal Ballet’s youngest principal
dancer at 19, quit Covent Garden in January, blaming pressure, boredom
and the desire to seek a normal life. But now it has been confirmed that
next April he will play the lead in Midnight Express, a ballet called a
“visceral celebration of balletic ability”, based on the true-life book
by Billy Hayes about an American’s experience in Turkish prison after a
drug-smuggling conviction.
