Q&A with Roberto Bolle

The current edition of Io Donna carries a variation of the Proust questionnaire asked to the bollovely Bolle. Dare you enter the mind of Bolle? DARE U?

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~Your favorite virtue: Determination.   
~Your favorite qualities in a man: Loyalty.   
~Your favorite qualities in a woman: A sense of humor.
~What are your defects: Stubbornness.
~What is your dream of happiness: I am currently achieving that, living in a manner that is rather extraordinary.
~What is your regret: I’m too young to have any.
~When is the last time cried: A few months ago when my aunt passed away.
~What is the encounter that changed your life: The time with Nureyev in 1990. I was only 15. He had given me the role of Tadzio in “Death in Venice”.
~Reoccurring dream: A nightmare! To be onstage and forget my steps.
~The happiest day in your life: When I was named primo ballerino. I was 20.
~The unhappiest day in your life: When I got injured at 19. I was preparing for my first important part.
~If you had millions of euros: I would make so many people happy.
~What would be the greatest catastrophe for you: To be an invalid.
~Favorite city: Paris.
~Favorite drink: Water.
~Your favorite dish: Risotto alla zucca..
~Your all-time favorite book: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
~Your favorite book of right now: Roberto Saviano’s Gomorra. We were together for the commission for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italian independence.
~Favorite novelists: Dostoyevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Kundera
~Favorite poets: Emily Dickinson and Baudelaire
~Favorite singer: I don't know.
~Your hero: Muhammad Yunus, the banker of the poor.
~Favorite painters: Caravaggio and Renoir.
~Favorite movie: Blow-Up by Antonioni. 
~Favorite actor: Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro.
~Favorite actress: Meryl Streep.
~The song you whistle while in the shower: Usually the melodies of the ballet that I am rehearsing.
~If you could change something in your appearance: I accept myself the way I am.
~What is it you hate the most: Unnecessary cruelty.
~If you hadn't been a ballerino, you would be a: Swimmer.
~The gift you'd like to have: Ubiquity.
~How do you want to die?: Without realizing it.
~Current state of mind: I am exalted.
~The sins that you are most ready to forgive: Sins that are committed for love.
~Your motto: Always chase your dreams.

Comments

[heldensoubrette]

bobby, honey, if you're THAT gorgeous, you'll accept yourself that way you are.

[CrewMantle]

Good man....

Nothing we did not know already.

[Chris]

Question everybody wants to ask but nobody does: are you gay?

[CrewMantle]

Where polite society is concerned, nobody asks such extraordinarily rude, base questions as it would show a distinctive lack of good breeding. Ergo, who would want to look like such a low rent fool by doing so?

However, behind closed doors, gossip, fantasize, and postulate as much as you want until the cows come home.

That is how members of the human race can continue to endure others of obviously different social strata.

[A Real cad]

Yunus? Really? This is a good man.

[Bill Philin-Ploplis]

Nureyev was a legendary performer, but his original choreography suked major, e. g. his missed-the-point waltz in act one Swan Lake for the Paris Opera National Ballet and many other self-indulgent re-shapings of sections of the classics. I never knew he choreographed the dances in the Britten opera or was the piece mentioned by Bolle an original ballet on the Thomas Mann novella?

[Opera Chic]

Bill, it's Flemming Flindt's.

[Chris]

"Where polite society is concerned, nobody asks such extraordinarily rude, base questions as it would show a distinctive lack of good breeding. Ergo, who would want to look like such a low rent fool by doing so?"

Hmmm...making a big deal of it, I see. I would think it was more like asking if he prefers blondes or brunettes and that it is precisely because there are so many "low rent fools" and retarded prudes around that the question is regarded as rude, shocking or scandalous.

[Chris]

I saw Nureyev only in his later years when muscular overdevelopment (steroids?) had made him into a kind of dancing Arnie Schwarzenegger.

[Bill Philin-Ploplis]

Mille grazie, OC, for the info. Wow! I have only seen Flindt's "The Lesson" in olden time when Chartel Arthur was the student ballerina and Trinette Singleton was shocking the dance world with her Astarte! Them WAS the good old days and don't kid yourselves, tots! (The new Joffrey in Chicago is dull as dishwater and doesn't have a clue as to how to take the pulse of the times as Joffrey and Arpino did in yesteryears.)