Étoile - Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Principal Dancer - American Ballet Theatre, New York

Trained at the Scuola del Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where he has been Étoile since 2004, Roberto Bolle has danced in all the world's major theaters and with the most prestigious companies, including the American Ballet Theatre, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Bol'šoj and Mariinsky-Kirov Ballet, and the Royal Ballet. On June 1, 2002, he performed at Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee, to Buckingham Palace. The event was broadcast worldwide by the BBC. On April 1, 2004, he danced in the presence of His Holiness John Paul II on the parvis of St. Peter's Square, to Rome, for Youth Day. In February 2006 he performed in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Turin, broadcast worldwide. to starting in 2008, he took his Roberto Bolle and Friends Gala with enormous success to venues never before reached by dance: the parvis of Milan Cathedral and Piazza Plebiscito in Naples, where he was followed from an audience of thousands. He has also performed exceptional shows in the magical setting of the Colosseum and the Baths of Caracalla to Rome, the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, the Certosa in Capri, the Boboli Gardens to Florence, to Torre del Lago Puccini and Piazza San Marco to Venice. After the resounding success with audiences and critics at his debut at the Metropolitan in New York in 2007, where he danced with Alessandra Ferri for her farewell to the stage, in 2009 he was named "Principal" of the American Ballet Theatre entering organically into the Company's season, an honor never bestowed to any other Italian dancer. from then, every year, he is among the protagonists of the ABT season. In 2013 the Gala_ Roberto Bolle and Friends _is included within the project, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "2013, Year of Italian Culture in the United States" and is staged at the New York City Center in New York. Since 1999, he has been a "Goodwill Ambassador" for UNICEF, an organization he supports by participating to in a numerous and significant series of initiatives, including a trip made in 2006 to southern Sudan and one in November 2010 to the Central African Republic, to bring back direct testimony of the tragic situation in which the populations of those countries find themselves. Of 2010 is the meeting with two great directors of the caliber of Peter Greenway, who calls him to interpret the symbol of Italian art in his installation "Italy of cities" - made for the Italian pavilion

of the 2010 Shanghai Expo - and Bob Wilson, who dedicated to him one of his voom portraits, "Perchance to Dream," an impressive multimedia installation inaugurated to New York in November. In 2012 he was awarded the prestigious title of "Cavaliere dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana" conferred on him by the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, in virtue of merits acquired towards the country in the cultural field. In 2014, however, he was awarded the UNESCO Medal to Paris for the universal cultural value of his artistic opera . In April 2015, the photographic book Viaggio nella Bellezza (Journey in Beauty ) was released by Rizzoli, with images by Luciano Romano and Fabrizio Ferri portraying him in some of the symbolic places of Italy's artistic heritage, such as the ruins of Pompeii, Piazza San Marco in Agrigento, the Colosseum and the Baths of Caracalla, where the harmony of gestures and the balance between the dancer and the places evoke a profound reflection on art and the exceptional nature of our heritage. Also in 2015 Roberto Bolle approached cinema for the first time in the role from director by participating in the choral project Milano 2015 documentary film divided into six episodes with as many directors. The film, was successfully presented at the Venice Film Festival. In 2016, he participated as a guest at the Sanremo festival, bringing an unprecedented choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti to the notes of Queen's We Will Rock You. Also in 2016 Raiuno dedicates a Saturday prime time to him with the event show Roberto Bolle - La Mia Danza Libera, and November to comes out in Italian theaters Roberto Bolle. The Art of Dance, the documentary film from the 2015 summer tour of the Roberto Bolle and Friends show.