The youngest male dancer ever to be made a principal with the Royal Ballet, abruptly quit the company.

 

Ukrainian Sergei Polunin, still only 21, rose rapidly through ranks within two years of joining the Royal Ballet from the Royal Ballet School and was promoted to top rank in 2010 aged only 19. The sudden departure of the man labeled 'Covent Garden's most remarkable male discovery for years' has shocked observers.

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