“It’s sort of surprising that the company has lasted 40-plus years,” says the choreographer Peter Anastos, “but the idea was very strong.” Anastos is speaking of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the all-male comedic ballet troupe he co-founded in 1974 and directed for decades. “Guys in tutus are funny for about 30 seconds. After that, they have to actually do something and have really good material.”
That really good material consists of lovingly fractured excerpts from classics such as Giselle and The Nutcracker as well as sharp and savvy parodies like Go for Barocco, Anastos’s jaw-dropping 1975 deconstruction of George Balanchine’s 1941 masterpiece Concerto Barocco.
