Sadler's Wells, LondonAlain Platel is a choreographer and the founder of the Belgian new wave dance company Les Ballets C de la B, and Frank van Laecke is a theatre director. Together they have created Gardenia, a work inspired by the film Yo soy asÃ, which documents the last days of a transvestite cabaret in Barcelona. Gardenia assembles a cast of seven drag artists, all of them retired and most of them in their …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on July 2, 2011