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From: The Village Voice | Date: September 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

The all-male ballerina cast of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo may be in very, very good moods," as the opening-night MC claimed, but just how very good is their form? The first program of a weeklong e at the Joyce Theater relied on old favorites like Le Lac des Cygnes and The Dying Swan to propel the evening through less polished works, such as the New York premieres of La Vivandiere and Robert La Fosse's Stars and Stripes Forever. What the Tracks lack In balletic ability, however, they make up for with kitsch and histrionics.

La Vivandiere's demure maiden is played by Svetlana ...

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