As PLD's resident classical queen, I get some funny looks when I remind the other gurls that I got my degree in opera and spend a lot of time reading about and listening to it. Sometimes when I get a little drunk and have YouTube in front of me, I insist that everyone around me "get into this video of Alicia Alonso in the Grand Pas de Quatre." Of course I never know how to convey what I feel when I'm having a classical aesthetic experience, but I think I've got just the thing to convince my fellow faggots to join me at the ABT next season:



Roberto Bolle, 33. Former principal dancer at La Scala. Now the most acclaimed danseur the world over. Only God can give this kind of grace and this kind of body to one person. To watch him is to watch a divine discipline and the height of physical achievement. No tricks, no exaggeration. Only execution of an order from something larger than himself.

Bolle makes his entrance into the American mainstream with December's issue of Vanity Fair in a photograph by Bruce Weber, with whom, we can report, he is collaborating on a book to be released in late 2009.

Roberto Bolle by Bruce Weber, Vanity Fair, Dec 2008

But if staring longingly at photos isn't enough, New Yorkers will be able to enjoy him at The American Ballet Theater at the Met, where Bolle will featured in Romeo & Juliet, Giselle, Swan Lake, and Sylvia.

PRANCE, I SAID!

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