PROGRAM
Caravaggio
choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
music: Bruno Moretti, da Claudio Monteverdi
artists: Nicoletta Manni, Roberto Bolle
Don Quijote
choreography: Marius Petipa
music: Ludwig Minkus
artists: Tatiana Melnik, Motomi Kiyota
Les Indomptés
choreography: Claude Brumachon
revived by: Benjamin Lamarche
music: Wim Mertens
artists: Roberto Bolle, Toon Lobach
Grand Pas Classique
choreography: Victor Gsovskij
music: Daniel-François Auber
artists: Nicoletta Manni, Timofej Andrijashenko
In Your Black Eyes
choreography: Patrick De Bana
music: Ezio Bosso
artist: Roberto Bolle
Esmeralda
choreography: Marius Petipa
music: Cesare Pugni
artist: Maia Makhateli, Motomi Kiyota
Memories
choreography: Juliano Nunes
music: Dmitri Shostakovich
artist: Roberto Bolle
“I”
choreography: Philippe Kratz
music: Soundwalk Collective
artists: Casia Vengoechea, Toon Lobach
Spring Waters
choreography: Asaf Messerer
music: Sergei Rachmaninoff
artists: Tatiana Melnik, Roberto Bolle
Sphere
choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
music: Alessandro Quarta
set and light designer: Carlo Cerri
graphic design: OOOPStudio
artist: Roberto Bolle
light designer: Valerio Tiberi
production: ARTEDANZASRL
Roberto Bolle & Friends is an sensational performance and amazing opportunity to see on the same stage the Étoile Roberto Bolle with international dance stars, a real journey through the beauty and magic of one art form. Roberto Bolle, the absolute protagonist of dance, is not only an interpreter of these galas but also artistic director. Next to him the most important dancers in the world with whom he creates a surprising program, which is able to fascinate an increasingly vast and heterogeneous number of spectators. His performances have become an extraordinary tool to spread dance and its excellences to a broader audience, composed by thousands of ballet lovers and neophytes. Roberto Bolle brings on the same stage works from the great classical tradition with contemporary solos and pas de deux, created by the most innovative choreographers of the contemporary dance scene. A rare and highly prestigious cultural opportunity, a journey through different styles and different artistic traditions that continuously creates wonderful emotions.
Roberto Bolle trained at the ballet school of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, where he was promoted Étoile in 2004. He has regularly danced as a guest artist with the most prestigious companies worldwide. He was Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York from 2009 to 2019. His own performance Roberto Bolle & Friends has overcrowded many Italian and international arenas and squares gathering millions of acclaiming people. He participated in several film and television projects, often of his own creation, such as the format “This night has opened my eyes” created for Sky; “Danza con me”, aired from 2018 to 2023 on Rai 1; and “Viva la Danza”, which was broadcast for the International Dance Day on April 29, 2024, on Rai 1, achieving critical and public acclaim. Roberto has been testimonial of several commercials, award-winning and awarded the highest honours, national and international. He is, among other, Unicef Ambassador and he has received the Unesco Medal for the cultural value of his artistic work. In 2018, he became the Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and in 2021, Grand Officer. He collaborated with artists such as Bob Wilson, Peter Greenaway, Anne Leibovitz and Bruce Weber, who dedicated him the photographic book “An Athlete in Tights”. He is the creator and artistic director of the dance festival OnDance which is now at the seventh edition in Milan: through a busy calendar of workshops, open classes, flash mobs and shows, he makes the whole city dancing.
