A hairy-chested, all-male troupe that parodies classical ballets like Swan Lake and Paquita, all while in drag and pulling off the most refined pirouettes, is returning to Vancouver a for the first ...
The comic ballet company “Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo” will perform at 8 p.m, Feb. 24 in the IU Auditorium. The dance group, also known as “The Trocks,” is celebrating their 50th anniversary ...
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo brings its internationally beloved troupe of male dancers to the Long Center on June 29 to perform a brilliant combination of skillful pointe work and hilarious ...
Toeing the line between high art and high camp, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is an international phenomenon of 16 all-male beloved burly dancers. Celebrating 50 years, they have been ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo opens its season at the Joyce Theater with its vintage, vampiric “Giselle” and a new take on ...
Although he's only 33 years old, dancer Joshua Thake's life journey has brought him from a self-described "low-key suburban childhood" in rural Massachusetts to some of the world's most revered stages ...
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo brings its internationally beloved all-male troupe to the ECC Arts Center on Saturday, Jan. 31, serving up a dazzling mix of virtuosic pointe work and riotous ...
When it comes to classical ballet, it may seem that there's little room for variation or radical interpretation. Yet, shortly after Ballet West concludes a run of its version of Swan Lake, the New ...
Ballet – so graceful, so beautiful … yet so ripe for parody. When left in the hands of a suitably oafish comic a lá Will Ferrell, a ballet performance might later haunt audience members in their sleep ...
BECKET — Emanuel Abruzzo leapt in the twilight, defying gravity, flying in toe shoes. On a mountaintop, on an indoor stage on a summer night, in company with dancers from around the world, Abruzzo, ...
Bobby Carter as Yuri Smirnov – Photo: Zoran Jelenic Subscribe free to Metro Weekly’s digital magazine for the stories that matter most. “We market ourselves as all-male,” says Bobby Carter, a longtime ...
Amid the recent fracas about drag performance as a threat to the social fabric, historians remind us that the practice of cross-gender performance on the stage goes back to the earliest days of ...