Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo return to Ireland and UK: Repertoire and cast announced 

• Opens at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, 30 April & 1 May as part of Dublin Dance Festival
• London season at Peacock Theatre, 5 to 9 May 
• 14-venue Dance Consortium tour runs to 24 June
  
  

This spring, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, make a much-anticipated return to Ireland and the UK for a 14-venue tour presented by Dance Consortium. The Trocks, fresh from celebrating their 50th anniversary, are still delighting audiences around the world with their hilarious parodies of classical ballet - performed with impeccable technique and fabulous comic timing.

The Trocks’ love of Classical and Romantic ballet is at the heart of what they do. Their perfectly judged blend of satire, subversion and slapstick is rooted in deep knowledge and respect for the original repertoire. In the UK and Ireland, they are presenting two different programmes - one on tour and one in London - spanning both ballet and contemporary dance.
 
On tour, the repertoire is Swan Lake; Pas de Deux or modern work or solo to be announced; Pas d’Action from La Bayadere (UK Premiere) or Metal Garden (UK Premiere); Dying Swan; Walpurgisnacht. At the Peacock Theatre, London the repertoire is Swan Lake; Pas de Deux or modern work or solo to be announced; Metal Garden (UK premiere); Dying Swan; Paquita https://trockadero.org/company/repertory/
 
14 of the company’s extraordinary dancers, hailing from Spain, Japan, Mexico, Cuba, Italy and the US, will be taking on a kaleidoscope of roles performed by their male danseur and female ballerina alter egos. 
 
The dancers are: Olga Supphozova and Yuri Smirnov (Robert Carter); Varvara Laptopova and Boris Dumbkopf (Takaomi Yoshino); Grunya Protazova & Marat Legupski (Salvador Sasot Sellart); Holly Dey-Abroad and Bruno Backpfeifengesicht (Felix Molinero del Paso); Colette Adae and Timur Legupski (Jake Speakman); Blagovesta Zlotmachinskaya and Mikhail Mudkin (Raydel Caceres); Gerd Törd and Pavel Törd (Matias Dominguez Escrig); Tatiana Youbetyabootskaya and Araf Legupski (Andrea Fabbri); Moussia Shebarkarova and Vyacheslau Legupski (Vincent Brewer); Minnie Van Driver and William Vanilla (Liam Hutt); Maya Thickenthighya and Roland Deaulin (Peter Gwiazda); Marina Plezegetovstageskaya and Jacques d’Aniels (Antonio Lopez); Vera Vidludik and Nicholas Khachafallenjar (A.J. David); Heidi Kleine and Polykarp Legupski (Harrison Broadbent). Biographies here: https://trockadero.org/company/dancers/

Founded in 1974 in the wake of the Stonewall Riots, The Trocks started life as a late-night act on the makeshift New York stage of an early LGBTQ+ organisation. They have always been trailblazers and inclusivity, gender fluidity and body positivity, once subversive now part of the mainstream, are a given for them. https://trockadero.org/about-us/the-trock-turn-50 

Tory Dobrin, who joined the company as a dancer in 1980 and became artistic director in 1992, said: “Our tours to the UK are one of the highlights of our calendar.  The enthusiasm and expertise of the audiences in Ireland and the UK is unmatched! We are very much looking forward to performing, especially these new works.”