{"id":9588,"date":"2019-01-25T18:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T02:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliedinaberg.com\/wordpress\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2019-01-25T12:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:52:33","slug":"les-ballets-trockadero-de-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliedinaberg.com\/wordpress\/?p=9588","title":{"rendered":"Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, photo by Zoran Jelen.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dancing the very fine line between high art and high camp,\u00a0the internationally-beloved Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo<\/a> bring their\u00a0brilliant pointe work and vibrant drag costumes to the Granada Theatre<\/a> (1214 State St., Santa Barbara) on Sunday, January 27 at 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, photo by Zoran Jelen.<\/p><\/div>\n

Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was founded in 1974 in New York City on the heels of the Stonewall riots,\u00a0Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (also affectionately called “The Trocks”)\u00a0\u00a0is 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. The comedy is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents and underlying incongruities of serious dance. The fact that men dance all the parts\u2014heavy bodies delicately balancing on toes as swans, sylphs, water sprites, romantic princesses, or angst-ridden Victorian ladies\u2014enhances, rather than mocks, the spirit of dance as an art form, delighting and amusing the most knowledgeable, as well as novices, in the audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The funniest night you will ever have at the ballet,” writes\u00a0<\/span>The Sunday Times<\/i> (U.K).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n