Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo / Балет Трокадеро де Монте Карло

For the first time ever, the world-famous "Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo" is coming to Estonia.

For the first time ever, the world-famous "Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo" is coming to Estonia with one of its best programs, which among other iconic classical ballet gems includes the second act from Tchaikovsky’s "Swan Lake". Undoubtedly this program will win the hearts of the audience with its virtuosity and sparkling humor, and lift everyones spirits with lots of positive energy.

„The Trocks“, as the company is lovingly called, was founded in 1974 by a group of ballet enthusiasts who wanted to entertain with humorous versions of the classical repertoire whith men performing all the roles . It all started Off-Off-Broadway in New York City, where they performed to small audiences and were met with overwhelming enthusiasm by critics and crowds alike. Since then, The Trocks have established themselves as a major dance phenomenon throughout the world, their frenzied annual schedule has included appearances in over 35 countries and over 600 cities worldwide, and accompanied everywhere by resounding success, they were even applauded by Queen  ElizabethII and King Charles III.

The troupe's diverse repertoire includes many fragments from famous classical ballets such as „Swan Lake“, „Paquita“, „The Nutcracker“, „Don Quixote“, „Giselle“, as well as a skillful parody of some choreographers such as Balanchine, Robbins, Cunningham.  All numbers are staged with a delicate taste and thought out to the smallest detail, even their stage names are the names of the great ballerinas of the past and present, altered with deliberate "typos". Each "celebrity" has its own role, temperament, favorite stamps, tricks, habits, manners, and according to experts, in some elements like jumps, turns, thoroughness in performing various nuances they even surpass the ballerinas they parody.

The Trocks company was conceived for the glory of classical ballet and their goal is to present to the audience a humorous look at traditional classical ballet, balancing on the edge of high art and high comedy, and judging by the reviews of viewers and critics around the world, they do it perfectly! And here are just a some of them:

 “An international treasure.” The Stage

“The Trocks may show you how to laugh at ballet, but they also teach you to love it.”

The New York Post

- It is impossible to describe my deep fascination with ballet "Trockadero". This is the highest pilotage. To have the right to laugh at something, you have to own it perfectly.

- Their show is a unique ballet comedy. My friends, this is not just ballet. This is an order of magnitude higher! These are magnificent, beautiful, indescribable concert numbers of surprisingly talented people.

- Merry hooliganism! Indescribable delight, indelible impressions and good memory for many years

Revered by ballet aficionados as well as the uninitiated—those who don’t know a plié from a jeté—the Trocks are “a guaranteed hoot for people who know nothing of ballet and an absolute must for those who think they know the originals.” Sydney Star Observer.

“The magic of Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo is guaranteed to warm any frozen heart that dares to walk into their show.” Nadia Vostrikov, Ballet Herald

“We came to laugh, but we stayed to worship.”

Louise Levene, The Telegraph, London

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO

FEATURING

Colette Adae   Ludmila Beaulemova     Holly Dey-Abroad    Nadia Doumiafeyva

Helen Highwaters    Elvira Khababgallina      Varvara Laptopova    Anya Marx

Grunya Protazova     Eugenia Repelskii    Olga Supphozova

Maya Thickenthighya    Bertha Vinayshinsky

Jacques d’Aniels   Bruno Backpfeifengesich   Boris Dumbkopf    Nicholas Khachafallenjar    

Marat Legupski   Sergey Legupski   Timur Legupski   Vladimir Legupski

Boris Mudko    Chip Pididouda      Yuri Smirnov    Kravlji Snepek    Jens Witzelsucht

Tory Dobrin                                       Artistic Director

Liz Harler                                              Executive Director

Isabel Martinez Rivera                       Associate Director

Raffaele Morra                                        Ballet Master

LE LAC DES CYGNES (SWAN LAKE, ACT II)

MUSIC BY PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

CHOREOGRAPHY AFTER LEV IVANOVICH IVANOV

COSTUMES BY MIKE GONZALES

DECOR BY CLIO YOUNG

LIGHTING BY KIP MARSH

Benno: Timur Legupski

(friend and confidant to)

Prince Siegfried: Vladimir Legupski

(who falls in love with)

Nadia Doumiafeyva  (Queen of the)

Swans:

Artists of the Trockadero

(all of whom got this way because of)

Von Rothbart:     Yuri Smirnov

(an evil wizard who goes about turning girls into swans)

~ Intermission ~

SOLO OR PAS DE DEUX OR TROIS OR MODERN WORK

TO BE ANNOUNCED

GO FOR BAROCCO

MUSIC BY J.S. BACH

CHOREOGRAPHY BY PETER ANASTOS

COSTUMES BY MIKE GONZALES

LIGHTING BY KIP MARSH

Stylistic heir to Balanchine's Middle-Blue-Verging-On-Black-and-White Period, this ballet has become a primer in identifying stark coolness and choreosymphonic delineation in the new(neo) neo-new classic dance.  It has been called a wristwatch for Balanchine clock-time.

With

Ludmila Beaulemova, Holly Dey-Abroad, Anya Marx, Grunya Protazova

~ Intermission ~

PAQUITA
MUSIC BY LUDWIG MINKUS
CHOREOGRAPHY AFTER MARIUS PETIPA
STAGED BY ELENA KUNIKOVA
COSTUMES AND DECOR BY MIKE GONZALES
LIGHTING BY KIP MARSH

Paquita is a superb example of the French style as it was exported to Saint Petersburg in the late 19th Century.  Paquita was originally a ballet-pantomine in 2 acts, choreographed by Joseph Mazillier, to music by Ernest Deldevez.  The story had a Spanish theme, with Carlotta Grisi (creator of Giselle) as a young woman kidnapped by gypsies, who saves a young and handsome officer from certain death. Premiering at the Paris Opera in 1846, the ballet was produced a year later in Russia by Marius Petipa.  Petipa commissioned Ludwig Minkus, the composer of his two most recent successes (Don Quixote and La Bayadere) to write additional music in order to add a brilliant “divertissement” to Mazillier’s Paquita. Petipa choreographed for this a Pas de Trois and a Grand Pas de Deux in his characteristic style.  These soon became the bravura highlights of the evening-to the point that they are the only fragments of Paquita that have been preserved.  The dancers display a range of choreographic fireworks, which exploit the virtuoso possibilities of academic classical dance, enriched by the unexpected combinations of steps.

Ballerina and Cavalier
Varvara Laptopova
With
Bruno Backpfeifengesicht
Variations:
Variation 1                                 Colette Adae                             *
Variation 2                                Helen Highwaters
Variation 3                                Ludmila Beaulemova
Variation 4                                Nadia Doumiafeyva
Variation 5                                Varvara Laptopova