Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, often simply referred to as "The Trocks," is a well-known all-male drag ballet company that parodies and pays homage to classical ballet. The company was founded ...
Les Ballet Trockadero is a playful, entertaining company of professional male dancers who perform — in tutus, tiaras and tights — ballet and modern dance with a twist, offering traditional, classical ...
Ballerinas are not known for their rebelliousness, but the Trocks are no ordinary ballerinas. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, as they’re formally known, are classically trained male dancers who ...
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 ...
“I guess you could compare it to Laurence Olivier doing Hamlet, and Laurence Olivier doing Cleopatra,” Tory Dobrin says of the difference between performing ballet in traditional tights and in drag.
From the outside looking in, ballet seems to be all about convention. And for the most part it is - especially in classic ballets. But one encounter with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the New ...
Activism comes in many forms, including men in tutus. For more than 45 years, the Manhattan-based gender-bending ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has pushed for equality with its ...
Partway through Rebels on Pointe—Bobbi Jo Hart’s marvelous documentary about the all-male, comic, drag dance company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo—dancer Raffaele Morra teaches a master class ...
A funny thing happened to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo as it reached middle age. The venerable all-male drag ballet company, which has turned pastiche, melodrama and gender-bending dance into ...
A MAN in a tutu might elicit a quick laugh. A man en pointe in ribboned slippers, knocking off 24 fouettées with technical precision and élan? That laughter will turn to disbelief, amazement and then ...
Tory Dobrin: Hundreds of thousands of people have seen us. Robert: I'm Robert Carter. Haojun: My name is Haojun Xie. Alberto: Hi, my name is Alberto Pretto and I'm a dancer with Le Ballets Trockadero ...