It will be the first time the 48-year-old acclaimed Italian dancer performs the 1961 choreography with the Swiss dance company founded by Béjart.
Bolle will be accompanied on stage by the Ballet’s male ensemble.
The program will also include ‘Alors on danse... !’ by the company’s director Gil Roman and ‘7 danses grecques’, also by Béjart.
“I’m very happy about the choice of the triptych [a work of art that is divided into three sections],” Bolle said.
“‘Alors on Danse...!’ is a hymn to the pleasure of dance, written after the lockdown, while ‘7 danses grecques’ to music by Theodorakis is a very engaging ballet,” he continued.
“Then there is Bolero, which (...) for me (has) always great emotion, it's a challenge; it’s a heavy ballet physically (and) emotionally, but reinterpreting it is always a discovery, and with experience it’s always more of a joy,” Bolle said.
Born in Casale Monferrato and spending his youth in Trino, in Piemonte, the much-loved dancer is renowned for his passion for experimental dance.
He has taken part in film and television projects, often conceived by him, such as This night opened my eyes, created for Sky, and Danza con me. Broadcast on the main Italian network, RAI-1, from 2018 to 2020, the latter earned him great success with both audiences and critics.
Principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York from 2009 to 2019, Bolle dances regularly as a guest artist with other world-leading companies, including The Royal Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet.
His show Roberto Bolle and Friends has been performed to sold-out audiences in open-air venues in Milan, Naples, Venice, Rome, Sicily, and Verona.
At the end of May Bolle will be at Teatro Colón in Buones Aires in Mauro Bigonzetti’s contemporary ballet Caravaggio, which he will perform for the first time.
He will then begin the annual summer tour in Italy, from Genoa in Liguria to Taormina on Sicily before returning to Milan for the dance festival On Dance from September 7 to 10.
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