Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo – Only One Bay Area Performance in 2010

Fabulous, funny, and very very sophisticated, The Trocks are a worldwide dance phenomenon. For more than three decades, the all-male Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has performed loving parodies of classical ballet with to-die-for technical skill and impeccable comic timing. With hairy-chested men darting about in tights, tulle, tutus, and plus-size toe shoes, The Trocks take the art form’s conventions to the limit of absurdity, combining excruciatingly funny slapstick with a genuine respect for classical ballet. Channeling an old-style Russian Ballet company, full of stroppy ballerinas, runaway egos, and diva glamour, the Trocks put their hearts and souls into being “ballerinas” and the result is as affecting as it is hilarious.

The original concept of Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo has not changed. It is a Company of professional male dancers performing the full range of the ballet and modern dance repertoire, including classical and original works in faithful renditions of the manners and conceits of those dance styles. The comedy is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance. The fact that men dance all the parts--heavy bodies delicately balancing on toes as swans, sylphs, water sprites, romantic princesses, angst-ridden Victorian ladies--enhances rather than mocks the spirit of dance as an art form, delighting and amusing the most knowledgeable, as well as novices, in the audiences. For the future, there are plans for new works in the repertoire: new cities, states and countries to perform in; and for the continuation of the TROCKS' original purpose: to bring the pleasure of dance to the widest possible audience. They will, as they have done for thirty four years, "Keep on Trockin'.

~www.trockadero.org