{"id":15012,"date":"2011-09-28T01:24:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T08:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=15012"},"modified":"2011-09-28T01:27:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T08:27:24","slug":"les-ballets-trockadero-de-monte-carlo-to-perform-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=15012","title":{"rendered":"Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo to Perform in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15013\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ballerina-Group-2010-Hair-spraysmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15013 \" title=\"Ballerina Group 2010 Hair spraysmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ballerina-Group-2010-Hair-spraysmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ballerina-Group-2010-Hair-spraysmall.jpg 593w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ballerina-Group-2010-Hair-spraysmall-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballerina Group - Hairspray\/Photo: Sascha Vaughn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A dance company like no other, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trockadero.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo<\/strong><\/a> will make their highly anticipated (Yes! I can\u2019t wait to see this amazing dance company!) visit to Israel with performances at the Israeli Opera \u2013 Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center from November 8 \u2013 11, 2011. These brazen ballerinas take classical ballet to comic heights, with impressive technique and huge toe shoes. The all-male drag ballet troupe will perform highlights from their repertoire, including the second act of Swan Lake.<\/p>\n<p>The New York based company was founded in 1974 by dance enthusiasts with a playful perspective on ballet. The pleasures of parody are in its close resemblance to the original, and the Trocks, as they are known, perform classical and modern works to perfection, with a twist.\u00a0 Performing <em>en travesti<\/em> (all female roles are performed by men) the lovelier and more graceful the performance \u2013 the funnier it becomes with the ever-present awareness that the dancer is a man. It\u2019s serious art that is seriously funny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo<\/strong><br \/>\nGeneral Director \u2013 Eugene McDougle, Artistic Director \u2013 Tory Dobrin<br \/>\nPerformances will take place: November 8 \u2013 10 at 21:00, November 11 at 21:30.<br \/>\nIsraeli Opera \u2013 Tel Aviv Performing Arts Centre,<br \/>\nIsraeli producers \u2013 Bimot. Tickets are 149 \u2013 299 NIS. Order online www.bimot.co.il, or call: 02-6237000 (Bimot) or 03-5215200 (Hadran)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dance company like no other, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo will make their highly anticipated (Yes! I can\u2019t wait to see this amazing dance company!) visit to Israel with performances at the Israeli Opera \u2013 Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center from November 8 \u2013 11, 2011. These brazen ballerinas take classical ballet to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}