Upstairs in a lofty studio at the Margaret Alkek William Center for Dance, there's something a little different about Monday's afternoon class. Some of the male dancers wear cargo-style joggers and ...
HOUSTON – Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo – or the Trocks, for short -- is an all-male ballet company that’s probably a bit different than anything you’ve seen before. Just like any ballet, ...
When you go to the ballet, you often see female dancers in the spotlight. But in one special piece, it's the male dancer who is all alone and center stage. For the first time in six years, Boston ...
In 2020, Rafi Maldonado-Lopez, artistic director of the “Men Who Dance” all-male dance festival and founder of the Inter-American Choreographic Institute, introduced the inaugural program as a bold ...
The all-male dance festival will bring local and international companies, including Cisne Negro and Compañía Nacional de ...
The Trocks were never interested in making a political statement, their artistic director said. “We are men doing performances of ballet in drag for comedic purposes.” By Roslyn Sulcas Photographs and ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Sounds of pointe shoes can always be heard inside the studios of Ballet West, but you would never guess the person wearing those shoes is 23-year-old Jonas Malinka-Thompson. His ...
Typically, audiences don’t attend a ballet for laughs, but Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, aka Trocks, shakes up that notion. It combines serious repertoire with the comedy of men in drag ...