FILE - In this file photo originally made available on Jan. 26, 2011, dancer Sergei Polunin performs in the Royal Ballet production of Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky at the Royal Opera House, London.

Moscow — Former Royal Ballet star Sergei Polunin, famous for his tattoos of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday announced that he plans to leave Russia. The Ukrainian-Russian dancer was one ...

Sergei Polunin dances his heart out in a 4-minute video posted online last February. He explodes and deflates in turn to Hozier's "Take Me to Church," leaping high or turning fast and then slowing ...

As a breed, we ballet mothers can be insufferable—clingy, controlling, and omnipresent. The mother of Margot Fonteyn, who was known as the Black Queen, trailed after the ballerina, even on company ...

Ireland’s Hozier’s (Andrew Hozier-Byrne) video on YouTube was going viral — many times over — before LaChapelle combined it with “one of the most elusive yet revered figures in the history of ...

Polunin was born Sergei Vladimirovich Polunin on November 20, 1989 (Sergei Polunin age: 33) in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, to Galina Polunina and Vladimir Polunin. From the age of four, the future dancer ...

Though Hozier’s “Take Me To Church” did not win a Grammy last Sunday, it did manage to attract the attention of photographer and director David LaChapelle, who recently directed a new music video for ...

With his chiselled features, insouciant stare and toned, tattooed torso, Sergei Polunin is undeniably model material. As the newly unveiled face of Pal Zileri's autumn/winter 2016 campaign, the man ...

In the dance-filled finale of So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation, it was understandable that the contestants and their All-Stars needed to take a break from performing. And that's why ...

Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin points at the word “Natasha” tattooed across the top of his hand. “Natasha is this amazing ballet dancer, she’s a star. I did her initials,” he says. “It’s a person who ...

In a rambling, misspelled message on his Instagram account, Polunin wrote: "My time in Russia ran out a long time ago, it seems at this moment that I have fulfilled my mission here." The post first ...