EVENT: Les Ballets Trockodoro De Monte Carlo all-male ballet company
DATE: January 30; 7:30 p.m.; Northeastern State Performing Arts Center
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Dancing the fine line between high art and high camp, Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo has delighted audiences around the world for 30 years. 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 travesty, Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo first performed in the late-late shows in Off-Off Broadway lofts.
The Trocks, as they are affectionately known, quickly garnered a major critical essay by Arlene Croce in The New Yorker, and combined with reviews in The New York Times and The Village Voice, established the Company as an artistic and popular success. By mid 1975, the Trocks inspired blend of their loving knowledge of dance, their 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 Richard Avedon photo essay in Vague, made the Company nationally and internationally known.
The original concept of Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo has not changed since its inception. 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 fables, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance. The fact that men dance all the parts enhances rather than mocks the spirit of dance as an art form delighting and amusing the most knowledgeable, as well as novices, in the audience. They will, as they have done for thirty years, “Keep on Trockin.”
Les Ballets Trockedero De Monte Carlo is sponsored by the Holiday Inn Express and from a generous grant from the Oklahoma Arts Council.
For more information or for tickets, contact the Sequoyah Institute at 1-918.458.2075.