Podcasts about les ballets trockadero

Born in the small town of McGehee, Arkansas, Trent Montgomery has grown into a dancer, teacher, and drag queen with a long list of accolades. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Performance and Choreography from the University of Arkansas and a Master's in Performance and Choreography from Florida State. While living in Florida, he performed with The Tallahassee Ballet and served as the Associate Artistic Director at the Ballet Arts Conservatory of Tallahassee. In Arkansas, he has worked as a dancer and teacher with the Arkansas Festival Ballet, and continues to foster a love of dance through education. Trent's current claim to fame is his membership in Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a world famous, gender-skewing, comic ballet troupe that parodies the conventions of romantic and classical ballet. In the 19th century, ballet came to be dominated by the ballerina, with plots and choreography that highlight flowery, feminine forms. As such, the ballerinos of Les Ballets Trockadero draw a lot humor from performing en travesti, every member taking on both male and female roles.

Adult ballet dancer and board member for the Children's Dance Theater of Okanogan County in Washington, Rob MacCaul, is in the studio this month!  Rob's story about discovering ballet is a testament to passion, perseverance, and self-discovery. It began in 1982 with a chance encounter at a dance studio in Waikiki—an experience that sparked a lifelong love for ballet. From taking classes in Pasadena to performing on stage as an adult in Seattle, Rob spoke about how ballet helped him discover and express his identity and taught him that he can still challenge himself in adulthood, whether it's through performing on stage as an adult or taking the step of going en pointe at age 58.  His story goes beyond ballet as well. It's about finding the courage to express himself authentically, navigating societal expectations, and building a community that embraces everyone in dance. Check it out! Follow Rob on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rmaccaul Check out the pointe shoe inserts Rob shared: https://perfectfitpointe.com/ Follow The Red Shoes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redshoesdancewear Check out LFW School of Dance, where Rob takes classes: https://lfwschoolofdance.com/ Rob recommended The Dancewear Center: https://www.dancewearcenter.net/ Support The Children's Dance Theater of Okanogan County: https://www.facebook.com/p/Childrens-Dance-Theater-of-Okanogan-County-100070283439729/ Check out Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: https://trockadero.org/ Music in this episode: Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky Barroom Ballet - Silent Film Light - Kevin MacLeod Barroom Ballet - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100310 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ @eblosfield  | theadultballetstudio@gmail.com Follow The Adult Ballet Studio on YouTube! ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@eblosfield91⁠ Support this podcast on Patreon! https://patreon.com/TheAdultBalletStudio?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Full PillowTalk including commentary on video excerpts of the company's repertoire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VzzAG70B3o Video playlist 'Gotta Laugh' featuring excerpt of Paquita by Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/playlists/gotta-laugh/ Video excerpt of Swan Lake by Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/les-ballets-trockadero-de-monte-carlo/le-lac-des-cygnes-swan-lake-act-ii/  

Join DMPA Vice President and COO, Laura Sweet, as she visits with Tory Dobrin, Artistic Director for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Listen as Tory describes the history and heritage of this incredible dance company and how the company approaches their art.

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Selby Wynn Schwartz, writer of “After Sappho”, her first novel published by Galley Beggar Press in 2022. Together, they talk about her insatiable appetite for literature as a child and the way it led her to becoming a writer. They also evoke Lina Poletti, Sarah Bernhardt, Virginia Woolf or even Nathalie Barney, the women artists who inspired “After Sappho”, the book in which Selby Wynn Schwartz pays tribute to them.As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi.Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho, © Selby Wynn Schwartz 2002, first published by Galley Beggar Press, 2022.Quote from the interview "The Galley Beggar Q&A: Selby Wynn Schwartz", © Galley Beggar Press, 2022.Quote from the article "After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz review – in praise of visionary women" written by Lara Feigel, © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2023.© Booker Prize Foundation.© The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2023.© University of Edinburgh.Selby Wynn Schwartz, The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and their Afterlives, © Selby Wynn Schwartz University of Michigan Press, 2019.© Lambda Literary. © American Society for Theatre Research.Selby Wynn Schwartz, A Life in Chameleons, © Selby Wynn Schwartz, 2023. © Reflex Press. © University of California, Berkeley. © Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The Great Art Of Light And Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema by Laurent Mannoni, translated by Richard Crangle. Translation © University of Exeter Press, 2000. Anne Carson, Short Talks, © Brick Books, 2015.Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Translated by Anne Carson, © Virago, 2003.© Galley Beggar Press.Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Translated by Anne Carson, © Virago, 2003.Assia Djebar, Women of Algiers in their apartments, © Caraf Books, 1999.Assia Djebar, Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement © Éditions des femmes, 1980.Igiaba Scego, The Color Line, Translated by John Cullen and Gregory Conti, first published in the English language by Other Press in 2022.Igiaba Scego, La linea del colore, first published in Italy in 2020 by Bompiani, © Igiaba Scego, 2020.Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos. © 2018 Dionne Brand. All rights reserved.Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, © WW Norton & Company, 2019.T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars, © SUNY Press, 2015.Alessandra Cenni, Gli Occhi Eroici : Sibilla Aleramo, Eleonora Duse, Cordula Poletti : una storia d'amore nell'Italia della belle époque, © Mursia, 2011.Cordula « Lina » Poletti, Il Poema Della Guerra, © Nicola Zanichelli, 1918. All rights reserved.Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928.© LASTESIS© Non Una Di Meno. All rights reserved.

Talked with Phala, Oscar and Charlotte from the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. They have a great 2023-2024 season lined up. Kravis on Broadway includes Chicago, Mean Girls, Beetlejuice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Six, and Hamilton is returning for a two week run. They also have the fun crowd pleaser, Mamma Mia in the Summer of 2024. There will be celebrity shows such as Candace Bushnell author of Sex and the City, Mandy Patinkin, and Chazz Palminteri with his one man show, A Bronx Tale. For the dance lovers, they have Ballet Hispanico, Hideaway Circus: Beyond Babel, MOMIX/Alice, Step Africa, Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance, and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Lots of comedy this season including Fortune Feimster on New Years Eve. They've updated the classical series into evenings and matinees and are featuring the debut of Vienna Philharmonic and patrons can enjoy the return of Itzhak Perlan with "In The Fiddler's House" Klezmer band. Music from The Commodores kicks off the season. The Kravis a great family fare line up including sensory friendly shows. Listeners can get more info/tix at www.kravis.org

This. Girl. Is. The. Nastiest. Hobbyist. I. Have. Met. Do. Not. Book. Her! I chatted with Tuscon treasure Matt Finish about the mysterious origins and unresolved legacy of Suzy Von Strip, avoiding the pitfalls of the EOY pageant, mining the treasures of Arizona burlesque, how ripping out your entrails is the new final reveal, the intricacies of nude scorpion photo shoots, being the worst dancer in Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the fount of inspiration that is Pippa Middleton, and what really defines a professional performer.  Shout outs to Dr. Bones, Lola Demure, Fanny Galore, Red Hot Annie, the late Bambi Jones, Desiré D'Amour, Cha Cha Velour, Holli Mae Johnson, 21st Century Burlesque, and the labour of all burlesque performers.  Follow Matt Finish: @xo.mattfinish on Instagram Follow Chris Harder: @TheChrisHarder on Instagam, Twitter, TikTok, and www.HarderChris.com Follow Show Boys: @ShowBoysPod on Instagram Questions for Chris? Email him at ShowBoysPod@gmail.com or HarderBurlesque@gmail.com More about Matt Finish: Matt Finish, "The Golden Boy of Burlesque," is a burlesque producer, performer, and emcee from Tucson, AZ. A 6-time Burlesque Top 50 nominee, Matt was crowned "Mr. Exotic World" at the 2015 Burlesque Hall of Fame.       

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo aus New York City, kurz Trocks, ist seit 1974 die erste "all-male comic ballet company". Florian und Sven reden mit dem ballet master Raffa über Männlichkeit, das Regelnbrechen und das Herausfinden, wer man eigentlich ist.  Du findest die Trocks über ihre Website: https://trockadero.org/ Und auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesballetstrockadero/ Deine Fragen und Anregungen an uns gehen an kontakt@hausmannskost.show Und deine freundliche Unterstützung über Steady: https://steadyhq.com/de/hausmannskost-podcast/about

This week, we welcome Dancing Through the Lens co-host Chris Ouellette. Chris' unique path in dance includes training at San Francisco Ballet, performing internationally with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and acting as a company manager for AXIS Dance Company. This conversation touches on Chris' first encounter with dance film, his work with accessibility in dance spaces and how some of our audience may already have a picture with himSubscribe to SFDFFs new dance film series Encore Shorts at this link:https://sfdancefilmfest.org/2021-encore-shorts/@sfdancefilmfest@couellette87@axisdancecoThis episode was recorded on the ancestral lands of the Yelamu, part of the unceded territory of the Ramaytush Ohlone people. Learn more at https://native-land.ca/

Britton danced for Cincinnati Ballet and Les Ballets Trockadero before a back injury ended his performance career. His love for travel plus a little bit of relevant experience from high school led him to a sales position with Club Mediterranean. His aptitude as a leader in corporate settings quickly emerged - he became the top salesperson within 6 months! An ambitious restlessness then propelled him into systems and support roles, which took him laterally to more Fortune 500 corporations and upward into project management. In his current position at ADM, Britton is poised to make even more leaps up the management ladder leading multiple IT teams using Scrum methodology. He stays connected to dance in Cincinnati as a DANCEFIX instructor performing in drag as Brock Leah Spears (@Brockleahspears on Instagram). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/count9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/count9/support

June Millington, director Bobbi Jo Hart and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their fun, engaging, long overdue new film Fanny: The Right to Rock. They touch on sexism in the industry, liberation, your inner compass, poetry, safe spaces and role models, racism and why it’s so important to play it forward.“Revivify Fanny. And my work will be done.” David BowieTrailerTo learn more about the band and their work head here.For more information about IMA go to www.ima.orgSynopsis:Fanny: The Right to Rock opens with the words of David Bowie, bemoaning the band’s fate: “One of the most important bands in American rock has been buried without a trace.” The film then takes us deep into the woods of Goshen, Massachusetts, where we discover the Institute for the Musical Arts. It’s an underground music camp and recording studio for girls and women only, where Fanny lead guitarist June Millington, 69, has been teaching young girls to rock out long before rock camps became “a thing.”There, she and fellow Filipina-American bandmates, including her bass-playing sister Jean and drummer Brie Darling, celebrate their 50-year reunion with a new rock record deal -- cheekily titled Fanny Walked the Earth. If the stars align, it’s a chance to right the wrongs of music history.Fanny: The Right to Rock juxtaposes an intimate, cinema verité journey of Fanny’s uphill battle to complete and release their new album, with the fascinating herstory of the band’s improbable journey during their 70s heyday. Their controversial, self-penned lyrics dared embrace the newfound freedom of birth control as well as the trauma of the Vietnam War.Discovered early on by the secretary of legendary producer Richard Perry and signed as teenagers to the epic Warner/Reprise label,Fanny honed their signature sound in edgy L.A. clubs like The Troubadour. Fanny Hill, hosted regular jam sessions with visitors/crashers including Joe Cocker, Little Feat, and Bob Dylan’s The Band. There, serious rock & roll comingled with sex, drugs and skinny dipping.Fanny toured extensively across North America and Europe with major groups including Slade, Chicago and Ike & Tina Turner. They toured while writing, recording and releasing a new album every year from 1970 -75. They performed live and gave interviews on major network TV shows with Dick Cavett, Sonny & Cher, Helen Reddy and The Tonight Show, as well as the famed BBC show “The Old Grey Whistle Test”.The movie includes testimonials from Kate Pierson of the B-52s, Bonnie Raitt, Cherie Currie of The Runaways, Kathy Valentine of the Go-Gos, and Bowie bassist Gail Ann Dorsey. Male music icons also sing their praises including Todd Rundgren, Charles Neville of The Neville Brothers, The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian and Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott (who unveils a Fanny flexi-disc he has saved for 50 years, since he discovered the band at age 12).About June Millington and Bobbi Jo Hart:Bobbi Jo Hart is an award winning American/Canadian documentary filmmaker with Adobe Productions International, based in Montreal, Canada. With a career that has spanned 25 years, Hart has filmed in countries as diverse as Pakistan, Russia, Guatemala, Australia, Scotland and Zimbabwe — with subjects ranging from women’s professional soccer and tennis to classical music, comedy, dance and manic depression. Her documentary films have the most common thread of revealing untold stories of marginalized girls and women, weaving universal threads of dreams, family, love, loss, happiness, sadness, success, failure and determination. Her intimate, cinema verité style results in thought-provoking films that ultimately celebrate our shared humanity.Her most recent feature documentary I Am Not A Rock Star premiered at dozens of worldwide film festivals and was broadcast on networks in many countries, including BBCFour, SVT Sweden, ABC Australia, Documentary Channel. Music in the film included Jack Johnson & Patrick Watson. This film won many festival awards as well. Hart’s previous award-winning films include SHE GOT GAME: Behind-the-Scenes of the Women's Tennis Tour (LIFE Network, Starz), which had exclusive access during over a year on tour. Hart is currently starting the festival tour for her exclusive theatrical documentary celebrating Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (Documentary Channel, ARTV).June Millington “one of the hottest female guitarists in the industry” wrote, Guitar Player Magazine has been making music since she was a child playing ukulele in her native Philippines. Having moved from Manila to California in the early sixties, she and her sister bassist Jean turned in their folk guitars for electric and formed a succession of all-girl bands. By ‘69 they were in Hollywood with their band Fanny, which was one of the first all-women’s rock band to be signed to a major label (Reprise). Through five successful albums and extensive touring of Europe and North America, Fanny served notice that women could do more than simply sing, they could write and play passionate rock ‘n roll. As David Bowie said of the group in an interview with Rolling Stone (RS January 2000): “They were extraordinary: They wrote everything...they are as important as anyone else who’s ever been, ever....”Fanny played with major artists like Chicago, BB King, Dr John, the Kinks, the Staples Singers, Ike and Tina Turner, & Chuck Berry - and recorded an album at Apple Studios with Geoff Emerick, the Beatles engineer. June left the band in 1973 and continued to record and perform with her sister and on a number of solo albums. She played in the genre of women’s music for many years, and produced records by artists Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Mary Watkins, Melanie DeMore, and Bitch and Animal, among others. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the non-profit Institute for the Musical Arts [IMA], an internationally known teaching, performing and recording facility supporting women and girls in music and music-related business. Founded by June, along with partner Ann Hackler, activist/writer Angela Davis, and engineer/producer Roma Baran, IMA expanded into a 25- acre campus in Goshen, MA which runs five residential summer programs for girls and young women from 9-24 and hosts shows and workshops with established artists the rest of the year.Millington has received numerous awards for her achievements including the Audio Engineering Society’s Lifetime Achievement award, the Bay Area Career Women’s LAVA award for being a “leg- end of women’s music,” the Outmusic Heritage Award and in 2007 she, along with the other members of FANNY, received the Rockrgrl Women of Valor Award at Berklee College of Music. In 2013 she received New England Public Radio’s (NEPR) Arts and Humanities Outstanding Individual of the Year Award, the Veteran Feminists of America Award and, along with her partner Ann Hackler the Outstanding Activist Award from the Living Kindness Foundation. In 2015 she was given an award for her contributions by the National Women’s Music Festival.June released her autobiography Land of a Thousand Bridges: Island Girl in a Rock ‘n Roll World in June of 2015 and has received a great deal of press, including articles in MS Magazine, Pitchfork and Newsweek as well as on NPR. Millington continues to perform, write and record and teaches at IMA as well as colleges and universities around North America.Image Copyright and Credit: Adobe Productions International and Bobbi Jo Hart.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Most of us grew up in a world where Barbie dolls and pink toys were for girls and plastic swords and blue toys were for boys. This binary way of thinking has been affecting the classical dance industry for decades. Here is the story of Yeric Valentino, a professional ballet dancer that was trained to perform Princes and who wanted to be a Princess. Last year (2019), he made his dreams come true by joining the company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, dancing on pointes with a tutu on. After interpreting male roles, he had to face the choice of what was right and what was easy. He listened back to his inner self and lately became the one he always wanted to be. This episode is for the ones that love the idea of not being what people expect them to be, and any curious listener. Mentioned in this episode: • Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, trockadero.org • Infectious Stardust - Youtube Channel, youtube.com/channel/UCFTj9wj2CWL51YpKdrEO3jg Find Yeric on Instagram instagram.com/yericvalentino

“Llego a la compañía y miro. Y la compañía era igual que cualquier otra que se entrena muy fuerte, ensayan muy bien y lo mejor de todo es que hay la oportunidad de bailar los roles masculinos y femeninos. Así… »

Welcome back to the Arts Report. On today's show we talked a little about what the PuSh Festival is and what we will be covering. We then heard an interview with one of the actors of Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, Ben Caplan. After some ads and PSAs we highlighted the importance of Fundrive and some cool stuff that you can get when you donate certain amounts! We then talked about MOA and its importance, but better yet about their new-ish/current exhibition Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary. Spoiler alert: it is extraordinary! We then did an overview of a few different shows happening this and next week including: BERLIN: The Last Cabaret, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the Reel Causes presents Dosed at SFU Woodward's, and the super fin SMASH Comedy Festival. We finished the show with a reminder that the 3rd Annual Siloam Theatre Festival has open calls for artists until March.

This week on 5.6.7.EIGHT, Aleksandra interviews Chase Johnsey, award-winning dancer and Artistic Director at Ballet de Barcelona, who is using his influence in the ballet world to advocate for LGBTQ+ gender issues. Johnsey has danced for some high-profile ballet companies, including a lengthy stint with the world renown Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and the English National Ballet. While at the latter, Chase was nominated by the UK’s National Dance Awards for Best Male Performance and Best Male Dancer, ultimately winning the latter. Chase’s story is one of perseverance and determination. Being the first gender fluid dancer to dance in a conventional ballet company, Chase’s journey to ballet prominence was “the road less traveled,” and he experienced a degree of pushback and adversity that very few experience. However, even in the face of the odds, Chase pressed on and achieved great heights in the ballet world, including founding his own ballet company. On the podcast, Chase retells his whole story and shares some wise words around tuning out the haters and walking your own path.   Moving Quotes: “You can’t give up on yourself." "My favorite word in the English language is ‘perseverance.’ There’s always a way — nothing is impossible." “I’m really proud that, in my ballet company, my self-acceptance has filtered into my dancers’ self-acceptance." “Never let your ego stop your progress… Every day, you go and make a tiny bit of progress. And after 365 days, you’ll have a lot of progress. Keep going forward. Keep getting better." “I wasn’t going to let anyone else decide my life — what I’m capable of, what I’m going to do."  “I want to make works that challenge. I don’t want fairy tale, land of the sweets. I want to make art that really is current — that addresses real issues — that not only kids can relate to but also adults." “I’m a stubborn person, and I knew that there was a place for me in the ballet world. And it was a decision that I made. I told myself, ‘I will find a place for myself in the ballet world, no matter what anyone else tells me.’"   Bullet Points (w/ timestamps) - Highlighting key topics discussed: 3:28: Johnsey explains why he decided to move to Barcelona from the United States and how his ballet company — Ballet de Barcelona — came to be. 5:18: Chase discusses a dark time in his life prior to starting his own ballet company and what ultimately helped him overcome this hardship. 9:53: Chase shares the overarching vision for his ballet company — to establish an inclusive environment that uses its art to discuss real world issues. 12:36: Johnsey retells his ballet journey — what introduced him to and kept him in the ballet and how one of his earliest teachers was particularly influential in getting him where he is today. 15:15: Johnsey describes his experience dancing for the world renown Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. 17:17: Chase discusses the adversity he has had to overcome in his career — how the odds were always against him — yet how grit and determination has helped him achieve the unthinkable. 21:42: Chase describes the emotion of being nominated for two of the United Kingdom’s top arts awards and ultimately winning one of them. 24:36: Chase shares some of his most proud moments, including a notable event from his dance company and his involvement some incredible humanitarian efforts. 27:52: Johnsey gives some advice to aspiring dance professionals around staying humble and authentic. 30:46: Chase discusses some personal and professional goals he’d like to achieve within the next 5 years.   Bullet List of Resources –  Chase Johnsey LinkedIn Instagram Ballet de Barcelona Company Websi.te Instagram Facebook YouTube

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - the multi-award winning all-male, comedy ballet company - is set to tour UK/Ireland from September to October. Although a comic ballet company, the dancers are serious trained artists. In this podcast, Italian born ballet dancer Alberto Pretto gives us an insight into the life in this company that's steeped in history and honoured with countless awards. Alberto talks about his obsession with pointe shoes and learning to dance en pointe, and leaving a traditional dance company to join the all male company to dance the classical ballets in tutus and gorgeous costumes. Listen to Alberto explain his hilarious stage names - Nina Immobilashvili & Stanislas Kokitch - his makeup routine, and life on the road with Les Trocks.  In his spare time (where does he find the time!), Alberto has launched his own dance wear range - Alby Pretty (check insta @albypretty). Alberto tells us about his love of dance and fashion and growing a business on the side of his dance career. Book tickets for a show near you! The tour runs 8 weeks, over 12 venues beginning at The Peacock, London on 11 September and concluding at Grand Opera House, Belfast on 3 November. PRESS PLAY! https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/djwpodcasts/1wwwod/Alberto+Pretto.mp3 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - Paquita Group Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - Les Sylphides Group

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo – the multi-award winning all-male, comedy ballet company – is set to tour UK/Ireland from September to October. Although a comic ballet company, the dancers are serious trained artists. In this podcast, Italian born ballet dancer Alberto Pretto gives us an insight into the life in this company that’s steeped in history and… The post Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo dancer Alberto Pretto talks dancing en pointe, make up and creating his own dance wear range ap...

Chase Johnsey is a gender-queer dancer that is making his mark on the ballet world. Dancing professionally for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo for 14 years, Chase was known for his expertise, speed and grace. In 2017 he won one of the UK’s top dance prices for the Best Male Dancer in the National Dance awards. “ballerinas are my superheroes” His time at Trockadero’s ended in January 2018, after Chase resigned from what he described as his dream job. In a powerful YouTube video he outlined allegations of harassment from a company that he said did not appreciate his gender expression and that of other dancers. Trockadero is known for sending up gender, with the all-male company dancing on pointe in drag. This gender expression was said to be something sent up on stage and trans issues or gender fluidity was discouraged. Chase made a big sacrifice and thought he would never dance professionally again. Upon leaving Trockadero’s, a significant opportunity opened up to Chase, with English National Ballet’s Artistic Director, Tamara Rojo, offering Chase the chance to joining the female corps de ballet for the company’s production of The Sleeping Beauty. The casting was not done as a publicity stunt, but as a genuine attempt for the company to include Chase in the ensemble. This historic move was said to be the first, for a classical dance company to cast a gender queer man in the female ensemble. The casting certainly got conversations started about the capacity of ballet to reimagine traditional gender roles and gender more broadly. Chase found that there was more freedom at the English National Ballet to be himself than at Trockadero’s. He hopes that he has taken an important step that will make it easier for gender queer and trans dancers in the future to get jobs in these companies. “the possibility for anybody in any ballet company, for anybody who is talented enough to be there” This is an extensive interview that covers Chase’s journey in to dance, including his vision for the future of dance. This episode is part of a season that profiles performers and choreographers that disrupt the “normal” through their artistry including Luke George, Mette Ingvartsen, Philip Adams, Bruno Isakovic and Justin Shoulder. If you enjoy Delving into Dance please leave a contribution. We are currently raising funds to transcribe all the episodes to increase the accessibility of the podcast, particularly to deaf individuals.

You can dance if you want to. And wear a tutu, too! Robert Carter is a dancer with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male drag ballet company that pays tribute to – and pokes fun at – the classical Russian stars of dance. The male dancers portray ballerinas (with great names like Ida Nevaseyneva), using their incredible athleticism to dance on pointe and exaggerate traditional choreography for comic effect. Robert was one of four dancers in the company featured in the documentary Rebels on Pointe, a Bobbi Jo Hart film revealing the history of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Robert Carter’s story runs parallel to that of the fictional Billy Elliot. He grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, in a working-class family. His mother made sure that he and his sisters were exposed to the arts, and Robert was involved in community theatre at a very early age. The man who would become his dance teacher noticed him singing a solo at the Spoleto Festival and approached Robert’s mother to offer the opportunity for ballet lessons. Robert attended his first class when he was seven, and he has been dancing ever since. After high school, Robert received a scholarship to take a summer course in New York with the Joffrey Ballet School. His impressive resume also includes roles with the Bay Ballet Theatre, the Florence Civic Ballet, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble. Robert joined Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo in 1995, and in his 23 years with the company, he has performed at some of the grandest venues in the world, including the Bolshoi Theatre and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Today he shares his journey from Charleston to New York and beyond, explaining the challenges of being gay in the South, the message of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and his experience being featured in the documentary film about the company. Topics Covered • The origin of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo • How Robert got into ballet as a boy in South Carolina • How Robert’s father reacted to his desire to dance • Offended by prospect • How Robert coped with being a gay man in the South • Robert’s journey to NYC • The bias that pointe work is only for women • The message of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo • The Trockadero documentary, Rebels on Pointe • The physical demands of dancing with the Trocks • The benefits of pointe work for male dancers • Where the Trocks get their pointe shoes • Robert’s favorite ballerinas • The importance of acting ability in ballet • How to encourage more boys to do ballet • Why it’s acceptable to start ballet as an adult • Robert’s plans for the future

Jessica and Clara had a lively chat with Joshua Thake, ballet dancer of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (better known on stage as Eugenia Repelskii and Jacques d’Aniels).  Josh revealed what it is like to prepare for roles and travel all over the world with the Trocks.  We discussed why their brand of humor […]

Our hosts chuckled all the way through last week's visit by Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. An all-male comedy dance troupe, the Trocks dragged out all the sacred cows of the ballet world and beat them with lipstick and pointe shoes. https://idontgetityeg.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/idgi-s2e11.mp3★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our hosts chuckled all the way through last week’s visit by Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. An all-male comedy dance troupe, the Trocks dragged out all the sacred cows of the ballet world and beat them with lipstick and pointe shoes.