Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Return To UW’s Meany Center

May 16, 2017• byMichael Strangeways

Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Hunky male ballet dancers…in drag playing all the female roles in great ballet works.

What’s not to love?

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the internationally known dance company returns to Seattle and the University of Washington’s Meany hall for three shows this Thursday through Saturday. They’ve visited Seattle in the past and the troupe is beloved for their gender bending shows that feature men dancing all the “girly” roles…swans, sprites, sylphs, maidens, princesses, virgins and “angst ridden Victorian” old maids, the men of the Trockadero play them all!

Great seats available here: http://smrths.com/TheTrocks_May181920.More poo:

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was 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 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 a Richard Avedon photo essay in Vogue, made the Company nationally and internationally known…They have been described by the Sydney Star Observer as “a guaranteed hoot for people who know nothing of ballet and an absolute must for those who think they know the originals.”

Performance Dates

Thu May 18 2017 8:00 PM

Fri May 19 2017 8:00 PM

Sat May 20 2017 8:00 PM

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.