Ukrainian dancer fails to turn up for rehearsals for London ballet version of Midnight ExpressSergei Polunin, the Ukrainian who shocked the dance world by walking out of the Royal Ballet last year, has gone awol from a ballet version of Midnight Express.Polunin had been due to play Billy Hayes, the American drug smuggler whose torments in a Turkish prison were brutally immortalised in Alan Parker's 1978 film. But the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04AM on July 30, 2017