Ballet company's prancing is strictly toe-in-cheek

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: March 29, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Drag shows needn't be drags.

Witness Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. This all-male ensemble kidded the pants off classical ballet Thursday night at the Pabst Theatre and in the bargain made hash of Petipa, Ivanov, Fokine and even Balanchine.

From Tchaikovsky's poignant, easily parodied "Swan Lake" to Pavlova's eternal vaudeville turn, "The Dying Swan," the guys in tight tutus had too, too much fun with the major cliches and minor mishaps that make ballet-going a blood sport when the going gets bad.

In a two-hour recital that recalled, in excruciating detail, the ineptitude of the ...

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