This just in from TONY Dance editor Gia Kourlas:

As the dance season winds down, Veronika Part, the recently appointed principal at American Ballet Theatre, is scheduled to make television history on The Late Show with David Letterman—and she won’t be wearing a tutu. The Russian beauty will appear on the program, as a proper guest and not as a dancing prop, on July 9. For Part, who dances Swan Lake tonight opposite Roberto Bolle, the appearance will mark the first time a ballerina has been given the opportunity to sit, opposite Letterman, on the couch and actually talk. This, obviously, has a little something to do with Tony Mendez, the show’s resident “Cue Card Boy” and unofficial leader of the Veronika Part fan club. It won’t be the only noteworthy event on July 9: That night, Cory Stearns and Hee Seo, another luminous ballerina who will be featured in an upcoming TONY interview, make their New York debut in Romeo and Juliet at the Metropolitan Opera House.