Tag: sergei polunin

Shelly Power leads class at Houston Ballet Academy. Houston Ballet Academy’s director of 11 years, Shelly Power, will be leaving to take on a new position: artistic director and CEO of the international ballet competition Prix de Lausanne, effective in September. She is the first in the annual competition’s history to become both the artistic […]

Misty Copeland’s Under Armour ad, move over. The web has a new overnight ballet obsession: Sergei Polunin. The viral performance video to Hozier’s “Take Me to Church,” directed by David LaChapelle, is epic and beautiful and unique. (The moment at 1:37 when the camera rises with his cabriole is my personal favorite.) And there’s no denying it—the man […]