Les Ballets Trockadero, Vol. 1
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Manufacturer: Tdk DVD Video
Starring: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0824121000042
Format: Classical
Label: Tdk DVD Video
Manufacturer: Tdk DVD Video
Publisher: Tdk DVD Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-07-16
Running Time: 100
Studio: Tdk DVD Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Summary: Amusing way to look at Ballet
Comment: A new look to traditional Ballet favorites, with all parts danced by men, many in drag, and with satire thrown in. Fun, but probably not for traditionalists or homophobes. It was amazing how feminine they could look as long you as you did not get close enough to see their beards and deliberately overdone makeup. They also seemed to have picked the ugliest guys to dance the female romantic leads. I think someone really enjoyed "putting on" this production.
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Summary: Les Ballets Trockadero, Vol. 1
Comment: I saw the Trocks live many many years ago, and I see that they are still just as talented and funny.
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Summary: Can never get enough!
Comment: What amazes me the most about the Trocks is the fact that some of them outstrip their "female" counterparts on several levels. Robert Carter can out fouette any woman I have ever seen, and he brings across the classic diva attitude in every performace. Carlos Garcia plays up the "I'm just too adorable for my own good" ballerina, Jai Williams is always so dainty, wearing the taped-together glasses for every big show-stopper and Paul Ghiselin is the perfect Trock-he can dance, and he has the facial and body expressions to seriously make the comedy aspects work.
Ken Busbin and Fernando Medina are two of the dancers I always felt dance better in their respective gender roles. Ken was amazing as Siegfried in Swan Lake, and Fernando has the athleticism of a Russian gymnast. His barrel turns and scissor jumps in Le Corsaire put any male dancer in the Kirov to shame.
But I kneel at the feet of Bernd Burgmaier. He is impossibly tall, he has impeccable technique, his beautiful arabesques make me, as a former dancer, INSANELY jealous, not to mention he just might be the most adorable creature on the planet. I think I just might be developing a crush, granted, of the very very very VERY non-requitted variety :)
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Summary: pleasantly surprised!
Comment: I have first seen the Trockadero - the original - in 1972 or '73 at Finoccio's in San Francisco and bought both videos for memory's sake. I highly recommend this video to anyone who enjoys good comedy. but especially good ballet - excerpts though these are. Although the dancers are female impersonators, my hat's off to them for performing so excellently en pointe, a fete extremely difficult (so I understand) for the male physique. Today they impressed me as much as they did 30-odd years ago.
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Summary: The Trockadero Ballet is outstanding
Comment: I took a trip to England at the end of March 2006. The highlight of this trip was a performance by the all-male ballet group "Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo" at the Peacock Theater in London.
The unique "Trockadero" company had returned to London for the first time in five years. The company's 15 professional male dancers performed some of the greatest moments of classical ballet, including extracts from such classics as Paquita, Raymonda, and Swan Lake. The Trockadero Ballet was outstanding. Each dancer plays a male and a female role and has two stage names. This is a truly international company of extraordinary quality. The male dancers play the roles of Russian ballerinas so skillfully and so gracefully that it was hard to believe that they are not women. The dancers are great athletes and great comedians. Their parody of classic ballet is tasteful and hilariously funny. I liked them so much that I purchased a DVD of their performance soon after I arrived home.
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