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But “Bodkin,” created by Jez Scharf and executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, among others, takes more inspiration from mopey foreign murder shows.

Among his many signature roles: a lovesick swain so dazzled by his beloved that he moves as if in a dream, in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s “Roméo et Juliette”; an electric-limbed loner in a hoodie in Marco Goecke’s punishing contemporary solo “Mopey”; a jazzy curlicue of a man awaiting his own New Orleans funeral in Twyla Tharp’s “Waiting at the Station”; a highflying sailor, all looseness and young joy, in Jerome Robbins’ “Fancy Free.”

Reflecting on favorite roles, Moore singled out many, but noted that “Mopey” was the work that established him with PNB audiences.

His final PNB performances will be in a special Season Encore on June 9, in which he’ll dance two favorite roles: “Prodigal Son” and “Mopey.”

Leon is also the one who gives Larry the courage to get back out there and date after he separates from Cheryl by diagnosing him with “mopey d**k.”