Review:
(Performance)
Les Ballets Trockadero
de Monte Carlo (“The Trocks”)
(
25th to
Review by John Frame 26th
September 2002:
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Les Ballets Trockadero de
Monte Carlo, At the
Lyric Theatre, Ari and I were swept away by The Trocks tonight (Thursday). This was my first live
experience with ballet. As I drove home my whole body tingled - the Trocks is a full body experience that should not be
missed. The 2 hour show has 2 very welcome rest breaks for both the
dancers and their enthusiastic audience. The sound was particularly
effective - with a big beautiful stereo soundtrack especially recorded
for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, so they
really do own the whole show. Even with the recent SBS broadcast of "An Evening With
The Trocks" I was not prepared for how
impressive and huge the live performance experience is. I said to Ari as we left the Lyric
Theatre, exhausted from laughing, clapping and cheering: "What more
could they possibly do in order to get a standing ovation out of a
Brisbane crowd?" Ari said that if we had stood
up, everyone else would have as well. So PLEASE stand up and ovate for
me when you go. The Trocks are 15 of the best
dancers and entertainers you're likely to see in your life - let alone
together on one stage. A young man sitting beside me sulked throughout the show -
obviously there only to keep his girlfriend company and not wanting to
find men in tutus to be beautiful, funny or spectacular. The rest of the
audience was almost neatly 50% gay male and 50% straight women and we loved
it. You will too. |
CLICK
HERE to go to the official Trocks website and hear
a stereo 8 minute (4.2Mb) mp3 of my interview with artistic director Tory Dobrin as distributed internationally for community radio
broadcast by the Los Angeles produced international lesbian and gay radio
magazine This Way Out on 21st
October 2002. |