Tue, Feb 27, 2024 | 7:30 pm

Live on Stage

 

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 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. Founded in New York City in 1974, the company, affectionately known as the Trocks, began by appearing in late-late shows in off-off Broadway lofts for small audiences who appreciated the iconoclastic humor of it all.  In the nearly 50 years since then, the company has grown to achieve great appeal among more mainstream audiences who, each season, flock to theaters throughout the world to see these prima ballerinas perform.

 

“The amalgam of ballerina finesse and daft diva antics is brilliant, unsettling, riveting: the epitome of Trocks style.”

Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times

“Not afraid to play to the house, they conspire with us to pay homage to tradition even while giving it a kick in the tutu.”

 

Elizabeth Zimmer, Village Voice

“We came to laugh, but we stayed to worship.”

 

Louise Levene, The Telegraph, London

“They are the best kind of artful parodists, capable of illuminating the most gripping sections of academic classical ballet, albeit via a wink and smile and the occasional well-placed shtick.”

 

Calgary Herald

“The Trocks deliver a kick from a steel toe-cap in a silky pointe shoe.”

 

Daily Telegraph

“The Trocks may show you how to laugh at ballet, but they also teach you to love it.”

 

The New York Post

Sponsors