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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
The Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a travesty troupe, with men darting about on point as sylphs and odalisques, made its debut in 1974 in a loft on Fourteenth Street managed by the West Side Discussion Group, a homophile organization. The stage was a twelve-by-twelve piece of plywood; the audience sat on folding chairs. "The place was on the second floor, and the stairs were steep," says Eugene McDougle, an archeologist who lost his heart to that show and has been the general director of the company ever since. "The Fire Department could have closed us down." So could the ballet authorities. With a cast of ten, the show had only two men who could actually do classical ...
- The Triumph of the Trocks, The Shame of New York Magazine.(FinancialObserver)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) August 26, 2002 700+ words
...are also featured by the Trocks in performances that are looking...Slowpokin. And at least one of the Trocks, Ida Nevasayneva, is still...mugging: last season, in The Dying Swan; this year, swathed in yellow...the Opera. But though the Trocks stubbornly persist in their...
- Trocks' star found the role of a lifetime in "Swan".(Daily Break)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot February 19, 2006 700+ words
...ballet. They do the 'Dying Swan,' and people just...Nevasayneva dancing the "Dying Swan," which may be...popular piece in the Trocks' repertoire. It...good fit with the Trocks, and several friends...already-beloved "Dying Swan" piece. He had...
- Trocks rock house with irreverent ballet parodies.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Bale, Theodore January 17, 2004 700+ words
...splendors of ballet, it's got to be the Trocks. "Swan Lake, Act II," opened the...anything at all has been changed by the Trocks. Svetlana Lofatkina and Vladimir Legupski...from many contemporary ballets. "The Dying Swan" and a lavish staging of "Raymonda...
- HILARIOUS TROCKS DANCE AN EXQUISITE `SWAN'.(Life and Arts)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Kiraly, Philippa February 2, 2002 700+ words
...PHILIPPA KIRALY Special to the P-I The Trocks are better than ever. Gone are the hairy...des Odalisques, La Vivandiere, The Dying Swan," and "Paquita." The obvious humor...fellows, with a manic grin. In "The Dying Swan," Ida Nevasayneva (Paul Ghiselin...
- Trocks dance from edge to spotlight.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Bale, Theodore January 16, 2004 700+ words
...ballet. When Tory Dobrin joined the "Trocks" in 1980, his colleagues warned him...the extraordinary artistic journey the Trocks have made in three decades, it's important...going on." Roots aside, Dobrin says the Trocks have never thought of themselves as a...
- Antidote to Year-End Blues: The Ever-Buoyant Trocks.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) January 10, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Robert Gottlieb The year ended with a bang, not a whimper. The Trocks--O.K., fact-checkers, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo--turned up for two weeks of fun and games at the Joyce...
- THE Dying Swan was a ballet dance.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) April 11, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Bob Shields THE Dying Swan was a ballet dance famously performed by Anna Pavlova. Now it's been remade and turned into the Dead Swan - a comedy performed...
- THE DYING SWAN; The shipyard workers facing their final days on the...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) May 10, 2006 700+ words
...s biggest pipe-laying vessel. Crowds lined the river to welcome her. It seemed 30 years of setbacks were over. The dying swan had become a phoenix. Here was a yard dating back to 1873. One which led the world in technological advances. The builder...
