The eccentric dance star Sergei Polunin:
It’s, like, 40 times I’ve been [to Russia], and the blistering… (he sighs)… And every time I go I get a thankful letter from Putin, it’s like: ‘Oh.’ And I’m removing it. I’m just curious to see who I am…
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But Muti can’t remove the pictures of his tête-à-tête with Vladimir – just Google them and enjoy Riccardo’s deferential and adoring gaze! A little dictator meeting a much bigger and powerful one 😉
Severely off topic, bitter, and sad…
More than Russia, Muti loves China’s autocracy … just saying
Too disgusting for words.
Tattoos are a symbol of primitive ‘Weltanschauung’, of rejection of civilized values, so it is quite idiotic to sport them as a ballet dancer. It demonstrates deep contempt for his own profession. How crazy can you get?
That’s a pretty atavistic point of view.
Ballet is an atavistic art form, still surviving because of its qualities.
“Ballet is an atavistic art form”
I sense a discrepancy between what you wrote and what you think you wrote.
Yes that is quite possible. But I may be mistaken.
[Tattoos are a symbol of primitive ‘Weltanschauung’, of rejection of civilized values]
What priggish, pompous nonsense.
What was he thinking when he got it?
He wasn’t.
As far as I can tell, “thinking” is not anywhere close to being a priority for most young ballet dancers.
Don’t forget to include us musicians:)
Compared to them, many of “us” are worthy of being immortalized in sculpture by Auguste Rodin.
Yeah, you’re right…
A man with a tatoo of another man’s face? That is beyond eccentric.