'No regrets' for ballet bad boy as he premieres show in Moscow Ukrainian-born ballet star Sergei Polunin is premiering his new show in the Russian capital, after gaining a Russian passport late last year. The 29-year-old, who has been acclaimed by critics a ballet great on the level of Mikhail Baryshnikov or Vaslav Nijinsky, has long been dogged by the label of "the bad boy of ballet", for his ardent pro-Putin views and for homophobic and sexist rants on social media. IMAGES of Sergei Polunin rehearsing before his show and SOUNDBITES of Sergei Polunin