mo4ch:>‘Build your own establishment’: How ‘blacklisted’ ballet star Sergei Polunin handles his critics | Mo4ch News

Blacklisted in Ukraine and under fire from critics abroad, ballet superstar Sergei Polunin is no stranger to controversy. The contentious dancer joined RT to discuss how he handles his detractors.Last year, Polunin found himself on Ukraine’s artistic blacklist. Since 2014, hundreds of Russian performers, films and television series have been banned in the country amid ongoing disputes with Moscow. After a performance in Crimea, the dancer was warned not to come back to his home country.“I was unfortunately blacklisted in Ukraine,” Polunin told Afshin Rattansi on RT’s Going Underground. “I cannot enter the country, and they wanted to take my passport away, but they couldn’t legally.“One of the people in the cultural department in Ukraine called me and said ‘Do not cross the border, because you will be taken,’” he said, adding with a laugh: “For dancing, yes.”Also on rt.comThey ‘need a good slap’: Paris Opera Ballet fires superstar dancer for anti-gay commentsThough born in Ukraine, Pol…