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[bart]

THE ECONOMIST is not a magazine where one ordinarily would expect to find a long and serious article on ballet.  But this week's issue (Sept. 22-28) includes a supplement, "Intelligent Life" with just such an article.  It's by Julie Kavanagh, author of Secret Muses:  The Life of Frederick Ashton.  The article has a secondary title, "The Tiger."

http://moreintellige.../dancers-demons

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A few months ago Sergei Polunin walked out on a golden career with the Royal Ballet, sounding like a lost boy. What was going on? And what happened next? Julie Kavanagh goes to Kiev and Moscow to talk to him, his parents and his mentors...

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, September/October 2012

[ksk04]

I read this article a little while ago, and was shocked at the general nonchalance by the Royal towards Sergei's behavior well before he quit.  Moreover though, after reading it, I thought that I wouldn't want to dance with him if I was one of the principal women at the RB (so perhaps this was their way of weeding him out??): the frustration of having to deal with his whims would be enough to put me off dancing with him, so it's shocking they were able to get Cojocaru and Rojo to deal with his behavior.

[Mashinka]

Ballerinas used to queue to dance with Nureyev and he wasn't exactly the soul of courtesy.