to appear in benefits for international AIDS
organizations such as DRA (Dancers Responding to
AIDS) and Classical Action in New York City, the Life Ball in
Vienna, Austria, Dancers for Life in Toronto, Canada,
London’s Stonewall Gala and Germany’s AIDS Tanz Gala.
The original concept of LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE
MONTE CARLO has not changed. It is 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--
heavy bodies delicately balancing on toes as swans,
sylphs, water sprites, romantic princesses, angst-ridden
Victorian ladies--enhances rather than mocks the spirit
of dance as an art form, delighting and amusing the
most knowledgeable, as well as novices, in the
audiences. For the future, there are plans for new
works in the repertoire: new cities, states and countries
to perform in; and for the continuation of the Trocks’
original purpose: to bring the pleasure of dance to the
widest possible audience. They will, as they have done
for more than forty-four years, “Keep on Trockin’.”
MEET THE ARTISTS
COLETTE ADAE was orphaned at the age of three when
her mother, a ballerina of some dubious distinction,
impaled herself on the first violinist’s bow after a series
of rather uncontrolled fouette voyage. Colette was raised
and educated with the “rats” of the Opera House, but
the trauma of her childhood never let her reach her full
potential. However, under the kind and watchful eye of
the Trockadero, she has begun to flower, and we are
sure you will enjoy watching her growth.
LUDMILA BEAULEMOVA, famed country and western
ballerina, formerly prima ballerina of the grand Ole
Opry, recently defected from that company when they
moved to their new Nashville home. The rift was caused
by their refusal to stage the ballet with which her name
has become synonymous, I Never Promised You a Rose
Adagio.
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