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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks)

Trocks Swan Lake
Saturday, February 22, 2020
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo comes with its own tagline: "The World's Foremost All-Male Comic Ballet Company." Affectionately known as the Trocks, the company is a small but stalwart corps de ballet that has been "dragging" the classical ballet canon since the mid-1970s, when it got its start performing late-night shows in loft apartments across New York's Off-Off Broadway circuit. Whether in Harlequinade or Swan Lake, the Trocks use gender-bending performance to place a tight lens on ballet's inherent theatrics, employing comedy and camp to tease the technical rigor underpinning it all. As the company commands the Carolina Theatre stage with pomp and circumstance, it also commands us as audiences - humorously, lovingly - to ponder our assumptions about gender and our collective understanding of who tells the stories we have come to accept as canonical, and how.

Contact: King Kenney