Making Fun of Ballet (With Love): The Trocks Talk Pointe Shoes, Discipline, and Leaving the Diva Attitude Onstage
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is not your typical ballet company. Picture a corps de ballet of all men in pointe shoes, essentially in drag. They are men of all shape, size, color, and background. It's fun; it's comedy! But, it's also much, much more than that. I got a chance to speak with two members of the internationally acclaimed ballet company to find out what's beneath all the humor, make up, fake eyela…