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The Trocks are Back at The Joyce in All Their Tutus
The Trocks, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
The en pointe-fabulous all-male sensation returns to The Joyce for the holidays with two gay-filled programs that highlight the company’s astounding mastery of parody and ballet technique.
For those that don’t know, Les Ballets Trockadero, is an all-male drag ballet corps which parodies the conventions and clichés of romantic and classical ballet. Founded in 1974, the Trocks, as they are affectionately known, started performing in late-night shows in off-off Broadway lofts.
Since those beginnings, they have established themselves as a major dance phenomenon throughout the world participating in international dance festivals as well as television appearances.
The dancers portray both male and female roles in a humorous style that combines parodies of ballet, posing and physical comedy with “straighter” pieces intended to show off the performers’ technical skills. The hilarity is in seeing male dancers en travesti; performing roles usually reserved to females, wearing tutus and dancing en pointe. The fun starts when the dance troupe exaggerates 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. In short, a good time will be had by all!
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