| John Mitty Tuesday, April 9, 2013 |
April 9, 2013, Stony Brook, NY— Staller Center at Stony Brook University presents Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the critically acclaimed all-male company of professional ballet dancers on performing on Saturday, May 11 at 8:00 pm. Fondly known as “The Trocks,” the company incorporates and exaggerates the foibles, accidents and underlying humor in serious dance. The program will include Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Act II, Go for Barocco (music by J.S. Bach), and Gounod's Walpurgis Night.
Tickets are $42 at www.stallercenter.com or by calling the Staller Center box office at 631-632-2787.
More about Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Founded in 1974 by a group of ballet enthusiasts for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and en travesti, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo first performed in the late-late shows in Off-Off Broadway lofts. The Trocks, as the dancers are affectionately known, quickly garnered a major critical essay by Arlene Croce in The New Yorker which, combined with reviews inThe New York Times and The Village Voice, established the company as an artistic and popular success.
By mid-1975, the Trocks’ inspired blend of a loving knowledge of dance, impeccable comic approach, and the astounding fact that men can, indeed, dance en pointe without falling flat on their faces, was being noted beyond New York. Articles and notices in publications such as Variety, Oui, The London Daily Telegraph, as well as a Richard Avedon photo essay in Vogue, made the company nationally and internationally known.The 1975-76 season was a year of growth and full professionalization. The company added management, qualified for the National Endowment for the Arts Touring Program, hired a full-time teacher and ballet mistress to oversee daily classes and rehearsals, and made its first extended tours of the United States and Canada. Packing, unpacking, and repacking tutus and drops, stocking giant-sized toe shoes by the case, and running for planes and chartered buses all became routine parts of life.
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, or 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 complete bio, go to www.imgartists.com.)
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